Elvera Doretta Wendel

Elvera Doretta Weber "Auntie El" Wendel, 85, died Monday, June 6, 2011, in her Mechanicsville home. Funeral service 10:30 a.m., Friday, at Morgan Funeral Choices, Mount Vernon, by Reverend Barbara Krueger. El's visitation will be from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m., Thursday at the chapel. Burial Rose Hill Cemetery, Mechanicsville. Surviving El is daughter Barb (Larry) Lovell, Mechanicsville, two granddaughters: Brenda (Matt) Path, Mount Vernon and Julie Lovell, Stanwood, grandson, Bryan (Jody) Lovell, Mechanicsville, and five great grandchildren: Zach, Chelsea, and Elizabeth Lovell, Brianna and Kaitlyn Tenney. El is also survived by three brothers, Donald (Wanda) Weber, Willie (Betty) Weber, Mechanicsville, and Harold (Janice) Weber, Springville, and one sister, Sherry (Lynn) Hanks, Mechanicsville, and many nieces and nephews. Preceding El in death were her parents, husband Walt, and four brothers: Dennis, LuVerne, Kenneth, and Merle Weber, three sisters: LaVonne Weber, Carol Lovell, and Mert Scott, and a great grandson Cody Path. Aunti El was born August 17, 1925 in LeMars, Iowa, the second oldest child of Henry C. and Emma Dircks Weber. She married Walter T. Wendel, October 20, 1945 in Hawarden, Iowa. He died in March 18, 1984. El and her family moved to Mechanicsville in 1955, from Hudson, South Dakota, where they farmed. She worked for many years for local businesses in Mechanicsville. Elvera was a member of the Royal Neighbors' of America and volunteered at the Mechanicsville Care and Rehabilitation Center, Mechanicsville. Grannie loved children, her grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and "her little neighbors." She liked to be out-doors and especially gardening.