This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#268034) Estella Laughlin <http://iagenweb.org/boards/louisa/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=268034> AUTHOR: Mari Nielsen - DATE: 2/27/2010 at 01:11:02 Surnames: LAUGHLIN,DOCKENDORFF,HALL ESTELLA LAUGHLIN Wapello – Estella Gertrude Laughlin, 93, died Thursday at the Wapello Nursing Home. Services are Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Cedar Street Church of God. The Rev. Jack Kirk will officiate. Burial will be at the Wapello Cemetery. Friends may call after noon Saturday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Cedar Street Church of God of which she was a member. The former Estella Hall was born Aug. 2, 1894 at Danville, a daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Dockendorff Hall. She was united in marriage on Jan. 26, 1914 to LeRoy Laughlin at Burlington. He died Nov. 1, 1977. The couple lived in the Danville area for several years before moving to Wapello in 1934. She was a former member of the Harmony Bethel Church at Danville. Survivors include two sons, Dwight of Ainsworth; and Charles of Wapello; three grandsons; nine great-grandchildren; and one brother, Verdon Hall, Mesa, Ariz. She was also preceded in death by her parents and stepmother, a son, a sister and a brother. Source: newspaper clipping with handwritten death date of January 14, 1988