Mildred Coffin Mendenhall, 83, of New Providence, died of cancer early Sunday, March 24, 2002, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames.
The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasant Plain Friends Church in Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Ron Bryan and the Rev. Sally Wolff officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plain Friends Cemetery.
Family visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday with a fellowship meal to follow at Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church. Open visitation will be held from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Memorials may be sent to Quakerdale Children's Home, P.O. Box 8, New Providence, 50206.
Mrs. Mendel hall was born June 8, 1918, near Pleasant Plain, the daughter of Everett and Alice Jones Coffin. She married Hershel Lewis Mendenhall Nov. 27, 1941, at Pleasant Plain Friends Church.
She graduated from Pleasant Plain High School in 1935, and from William Penn College in Oskaloosa in 1940, with a degree in business and education. She taught school in Promise City and Thornsburg. She was a hospital secretary in Williamsburg, Va., Concord, N.H. and Independence. She assisted her husband in pastorates at Richland, Woolson and Middle River Friends Church and as business managers of William Penn College. She and her husband served in the Friends African Mission in Kaimosi, Kenya, as bookkeepers from 1958-1961. Later she was a Pleasant Plain school secretary for nine years until it closed in 1981. She and her husband adopted their son Russell when he was nine years old. He died as a result of an accident when he was a teenager. She and her husband farmed near Pleasnt Plain until they retired in 1993, when they moved to the Quakerdale camput in New Providence.
She was very active in the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends and the Pleasant Plain Friends Meeting before transferring membership to Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church.
Survivors include her husband, one sister, Mabel Irving of Wisconsin; and one brother Earl Coffin of Fairfield.
Her parents, son, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasant Plain Friends Church in Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Ron Bryan and the Rev. Sally Wolff officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plain Friends Cemetery.
Family visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday with a fellowship meal to follow at Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church. Open visitation will be held from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Memorials may be sent to Quakerdale Children's Home, P.O. Box 8, New Providence, 50206.
Mrs. Mendel hall was born June 8, 1918, near Pleasant Plain, the daughter of Everett and Alice Jones Coffin. She married Hershel Lewis Mendenhall Nov. 27, 1941, at Pleasant Plain Friends Church.
She graduated from Pleasant Plain High School in 1935, and from William Penn College in Oskaloosa in 1940, with a degree in business and education. She taught school in Promise City and Thornsburg. She was a hospital secretary in Williamsburg, Va., Concord, N.H. and Independence. She assisted her husband in pastorates at Richland, Woolson and Middle River Friends Church and as business managers of William Penn College. She and her husband served in the Friends African Mission in Kaimosi, Kenya, as bookkeepers from 1958-1961. Later she was a Pleasant Plain school secretary for nine years until it closed in 1981. She and her husband adopted their son Russell when he was nine years old. He died as a result of an accident when he was a teenager. She and her husband farmed near Pleasnt Plain until they retired in 1993, when they moved to the Quakerdale camput in New Providence.
She was very active in the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends and the Pleasant Plain Friends Meeting before transferring membership to Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church.
Survivors include her husband, one sister, Mabel Irving of Wisconsin; and one brother Earl Coffin of Fairfield.
Her parents, son, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
Mildred Coffin Mendenhall, 83, of New Providence, died of cancer early Sunday, March 24, 2002, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames.
The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasant Plain Friends Church in Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Ron Bryan and the Rev. Sally Wolff officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plain Friends Cemetery.
Family visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday with a fellowship meal to follow at Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church. Open visitation will be held from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Memorials may be sent to Quakerdale Children's Home, P.O. Box 8, New Providence, 50206.
Mrs. Mendel hall was born June 8, 1918, near Pleasant Plain, the daughter of Everett and Alice Jones Coffin. She married Hershel Lewis Mendenhall Nov. 27, 1941, at Pleasant Plain Friends Church.
She graduated from Pleasant Plain High School in 1935, and from William Penn College in Oskaloosa in 1940, with a degree in business and education. She taught school in Promise City and Thornsburg. She was a hospital secretary in Williamsburg, Va., Concord, N.H. and Independence. She assisted her husband in pastorates at Richland, Woolson and Middle River Friends Church and as business managers of William Penn College. She and her husband served in the Friends African Mission in Kaimosi, Kenya, as bookkeepers from 1958-1961. Later she was a Pleasant Plain school secretary for nine years until it closed in 1981. She and her husband adopted their son Russell when he was nine years old. He died as a result of an accident when he was a teenager. She and her husband farmed near Pleasnt Plain until they retired in 1993, when they moved to the Quakerdale camput in New Providence.
She was very active in the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends and the Pleasant Plain Friends Meeting before transferring membership to Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church.
Survivors include her husband, one sister, Mabel Irving of Wisconsin; and one brother Earl Coffin of Fairfield.
Her parents, son, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Pleasant Plain Friends Church in Pleasant Plain, with the Rev. Ron Bryan and the Rev. Sally Wolff officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Plain Friends Cemetery.
Family visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Tuesday with a fellowship meal to follow at Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church. Open visitation will be held from 7-8 p.m. Tuesday at the Gould Funeral Home in Brighton. Memorials may be sent to Quakerdale Children's Home, P.O. Box 8, New Providence, 50206.
Mrs. Mendel hall was born June 8, 1918, near Pleasant Plain, the daughter of Everett and Alice Jones Coffin. She married Hershel Lewis Mendenhall Nov. 27, 1941, at Pleasant Plain Friends Church.
She graduated from Pleasant Plain High School in 1935, and from William Penn College in Oskaloosa in 1940, with a degree in business and education. She taught school in Promise City and Thornsburg. She was a hospital secretary in Williamsburg, Va., Concord, N.H. and Independence. She assisted her husband in pastorates at Richland, Woolson and Middle River Friends Church and as business managers of William Penn College. She and her husband served in the Friends African Mission in Kaimosi, Kenya, as bookkeepers from 1958-1961. Later she was a Pleasant Plain school secretary for nine years until it closed in 1981. She and her husband adopted their son Russell when he was nine years old. He died as a result of an accident when he was a teenager. She and her husband farmed near Pleasnt Plain until they retired in 1993, when they moved to the Quakerdale camput in New Providence.
She was very active in the Iowa Yearly Meeting of Friends and the Pleasant Plain Friends Meeting before transferring membership to Honey Creek New Providence Friends Church.
Survivors include her husband, one sister, Mabel Irving of Wisconsin; and one brother Earl Coffin of Fairfield.
Her parents, son, two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death.
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