This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Purcell Shannon Schneider Cohrs Barsby Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/3193 Message Board Post: Newspaper unknown probably Woodbine Twiner Feb 1968 SERVICES HELD SATURDAY FOR WALLACE PURCELL, 55 Final rites were held Saturday, Feb 17, from the First Christian Church in Woodbine, for Wallace R. Purcell, 55, who passed away Febraury 14. Elder Francis Harper Sr. and Rev. Milton Dawson officiated at the services. Music was furnished by Ray Sauvain, with Mrs. James Cotton as organist,. Bearers were Morris Gage, Howard McLaughlin, W. W. Lowrey, Dwayne Walker, William Smith and Norman Hulsebus. Interment was in the Woodbine cemetery. Wallace Rolland Purcell was born May 26, 1912 to Joe Francis and Oma Shannon Purcell near Glenwood. He lived near the Woodbine areea most of his childhood and you adult years, and graduated from Woodbine High School in the spring of 1930. On July 31, 1935 he married Angie Schneider, daughter of Lawrence and Emma Schneider. One daughter, Linda, and three sons, Larry, Jerry and Lynn were born to this union. Wallace lived nearly all of his adult life in Woodbine. He passed away on February 14, 1968, at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Council Bluffs, after many years of serious illness. Survivors include his father, Joe F. Purcell; two sisters, Mrs Elmer Cohrs and Mrs. Cyril Barsby; a brother, Carl; his wife Angie; daughter, Linda; sons, Larry, Jerry and Lynn; two granddaughters; two grandsons, many other relatives and friends.