Obit.Cherokee County,OK Jewell Neel Van Osdol
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Submitted by Willora Glee Van Osdol (Daughter) on 4/29/2004

The Riverside CA, Press-Enterprise
Tuesday March 5, 2002
Obituary
Jewell (Neel) Van Osdol, 90 died Friday 1 March 2002 at Villa Health Care in 
Riverside. Born in near Hulbert, Cherokee Co., OK. on 31 May 1911. 
Mrs. Van Osdol lived in Riverside, CA 18 years. Previously she lived in Corona, 
CA six years.
She was born and raised in Cherokee Co., OK. Most of her growing up years were 
spent in the Peggs area of the county.
She lived in Rush Co., KS for nine years from 1930 till 1938. She married her 
husband there on 12 July 1930 at the court house.
She was a homemaker. Her hobbies were cooking, and gardening. She came with her 
husband to Los Angeles CA in 1938 and lived in a number of different places in 
the Los Angeles city area before she moved to Riverside in 1977.
She was a member of Free Methodist Church in Riverside and before that in two 
different Free Methodist Churchs in Los Angeles. Mrs. Van Osdol is survived by 
two daughters, Willora Glee Krapf of Pennsylvania and Junelle "June Ellen" Budzinski 
of Lake Forest, CA (June was adopted as a baby from Korea);  three grandchildren; 
a brother , L.C. Neel of Bixby, Oklahoma; a sister, Geraldine Crawford of Muskogee, 
Oklahoma; and her companion, Allan Berndel of Riverside. She was preceeded in death 
by her husband of 70 years in February of 2001, William Elton Van Osdol.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Rose Hills Mortuary in Whittier (CA).
Friends may call at the mortuary from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Thursday Burial will be 
in Rose Hills Memorial Park in Whittier.

Submitted by Willora Glee Van Osdol her daughter. I edited and added material to 
this piece from the news paper for it was very brief.