Vala Lucille (Donat) PALS

PALS, DONAT, LINN, SIGURDSON, BERTELSEN, UGULINI, KOHLER, KORWIN, BEU

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/9/2015 at 18:42:24

December 15, 1921 -- August 31, 2015

V. Lucille Pals, 93, Meservey, died August 31, 2015 at the care center in Sheffield. Services were held September 3 at First Reformed Church in Meservey. Burial was in the Meservey cemetery. Vala Lucille was born December 15, 1921 in Silverton, OR to Wayne and Grace (Linn) Donat. Her family moved to Randalia, IA when Lucille was six. She attended six years of school at Maynard, then the family moved to a farm near Hawkeye where she graduated from high school in 1940. Lucille attended Upper Iowa University at Fayette where she received a teaching degree. She taught school in Woolstock, Meservey and Reinbeck.

It was in Meservey that Lucille met the love of her life and future husband, Andrew Pals. They were married June 12, 1947 at First Methodist in Waterloo, where she and her family then lived. She joined Andrew in his farming operation and lived on the same farm all their married life. They enjoyed traveling and spent many winters in Florida.

Lucille was a member of First Reformed Church. She taught Sunday school and Catechism, sang in a ladies quartet and the choir, and held offices in the RCWM. She was secretary-treasurer of the low income housing in Meservey for 25 years. She enjoyed reading, gardening, quilting, ceramics, sewing and having friends over for coffee and playing cards. She was also a member of the Meservey camera club. She took great pride in what her grandchildren were doing.

She was preceded in death by her sister Ivadell Sigurdson and her husband Arthur Sigurdson; sister-in-law Marcia Donat; her parents; and her step-mother Dorothy Donat. She is survived by her husband Andrew; son Kent (Terri) Pals of Meservey; daughter Carla (Bruce) Bertelsen of Plover, WI; grandchildren Matthew (fiancée Amy Ugulini) Pals of West Des Moines, Kristi (Joel) Kohler of Rockwell, Alex Pals of West Des Moines, Alyssa (fiancé Nick Korwin) Bertelsen of Pearland, TX and Jeremy (friend Tina Beu) Bertelsen of Fall River, WI; and brother Rev. Ward (Dorothy) Donat of Roanoke, VA.

Belmond Independent - Belmond, Iowa
September 2015

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