Anna Lee Nickell, a 91-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Monday, March 7, 2011 at the Harrison County Community Hospital in Bethany.
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Funeral services will be held on at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011 at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Lineville, IA with Pastors Max Carmichael and Ron Helton officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery in Lineville.
Open visitation and viewing will begin at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at the funeral home, where the family visitation will be from 7 to 8 o’clock on Thursday evening.
Mrs. Nickell was born on June 27, 1919 in Mercer County, the daughter of Arthur Adel and Flora Jane Stark Dykes. She was married on July 3, 1935 to James Wesley “Bummer” Nickell, who preceded her in death on Oct. 7, 2001.
She lived most of her life in the Lineville and Mercer communities, except for five years when she and Wesley resided in Davenport and Bettendorf, IA. She worked at Perkins Grocery and Places Grocery Store in South Lineville, the Lineville school, Martin’s Town and Country in Mercer and the Axtell Hospital in Princeton. She enjoyed her work and enjoyed working with people.
Mrs. Nickell moved from Lineville to the Oakwood Terrace Apartments in Princeton in 2001 and has been a resident of Pearl’s II Eden for Elders in Princeton for the past four years.
She was a member of the Mercer Baptist Church.
She is survived by her daughter, June Hunter and her husband, J.H. of Grant City; her son, Don Nickell of Salem, VA; six grandchildren, Kay Bonelli and her husband, George, Ron, Tim and Kathy Martin, Theresa Hunter, and Brandon Hunter and his wife, Sheri; eight great-grandchildren, Micah Sheehan, Jennie, Preston, Ryan and Sheena Martin, Tina Miller and Jaron James and Jediah Michael Hunter; and by several great, great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, she preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Frankie Lemaster; a grandson, Paul Wesley Hunter; and a great-grandson, Jeremy Martin.