OBITUARY: Thelma 'Lenore' (Halvorson) Grell, 1909-1991, Mitchell Co., Iowa




                           Thelma 'Lenore' Grell

MASON CITY, IOWA -- Thelma "Lenore" Grell, 81, formerly of 1122 E. State
St., died Tuesday (Nov. 26, 1991) at Good Shepherd Nursing Home.

Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran
Church, 213 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. Ernest Thompson officiating.
Burial will be in the First Lutheran Cemetery, St. Ansgar.

Friends may call from 2:30 to 9 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home,
209 Second St. N.E.

Memorial Contributions may be given to Alzheimer's Association, Heart of
Iowa Chapter, P.O. Box 1523, Welch Ave. Station, Ames, Iowa 50010.

Mrs. Grell was born Dec. 19, 1909, in St. Ansgar, the daughter of George A.
and Anna Helena (Tollefson) Halvorson.

She graduated from St. Ansgar High School, St. Ansgar, Iowa. She then
attended and graduated from Hamilton Business College in Mason City. She
served as Deputy County Treasurer for Cerro Gordo County from 1950 until
her retirement in 1974.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

Survivors include three sons, James A. Grell and wife, Ruth, Flossmoor,
Illinois, Donald L. Grell and wife, Cheri, Burlington, N.C., and Robert
A. Grell and wife, Roberta, Amarillo, Texas; eight grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Ruth; and two
brothers, Alfred and Avery.

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        Copyright 2005 - Don Grell

Originally published 29 Nov 1991; Mason City Globe Gazette