Mary Frances Cole Gourd, 97, of Lisbon, died Monday December 31, 2007 in Mercy Medical Center from a brief illness. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m., Friday at Morgan Funeral and Cremation Choices, Mount Vernon Chapel by Pastors Larry Wegener and Ronald Lashmit of the Tipton Foursquare Church. The family will greet friends 5:30 until 8:00 p.m. Thursday in the funeral home. Frances is survived by her loving husband Stanley, five daughters: Virginia Laing of Tipton, Mary Laing of Lisbon, Cindy (Rod) Bergen of Vinton, Patty (Bill) Welty of Davenport, and Donna (Gary) Davis of Las Vegas, a son Harry (Thea) Cole of Mount Vernon, and one sister Iva V. Balmer of Marengo, Indiana. Also surviving are twenty-one grandchildren, forty great grandchildren, and twenty-two great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her first husband Virgil Cole, three brothers, three step-sisters, one step-brother, and two great grandsons. Frances was born December 30, 1910 in rural English, Indiana, and was the daughter of Jefferson and Mary E. Toney Satterfield. Frances worked on the family farm until she married Virgil Cole on August 22, 1927. He died August 4, 1960. In the 1950's, Frances operated Fran's Fine Foods in Lisbon, and later worked at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as a nurse's aid for many years. On July 16, 1971, in the Little Brown Church at Nashua, she married Stanley Gourd. Frances loved God her entire life, and was an active member of the Foursquare Church in Tipton, a member of I.U.G.M. (Rescue Missions), and a member of the Albuquerque Police Chaplaincy. Her generous spirit touched many lives, and she never turned away a person in need. On line condolences: www.morganfuneralchoices.com