The Life of LYDIA ALICE DEAL
Lydia Deal
Visitation:
Thursday, October 8, 2009
9:00 AM until 10:30 AM
Boone Biblical Memorial Church
921 West 2nd Street
Boone, IA 50036
Service:
Thursday, October 8, 2009
10:30 AM
Boone Biblical Memorial Church
921 West 2nd Street
Boone, IA 50036
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Lydia Deal, 92, formerly of 113 Fremont Street in Boone passed away at the Boone County Hospital on Friday morning, October 2, 2009. She had been a resident at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone for the past 3 years.
She was born on December 6, 1916 in Brainard, Nebraska the daughter of Frank and Anna (Cejka) Smolik.
On May 28, 1960, she married Glen A Deal at Osage, Iowa.
Lydia was a graduate of Little Cedar High School near Osage, Iowa. In 1935, at the age of 18, she came to the Boone Biblical College in Boone where she taught school for 52 years. During that time, she attended the University of Northern Iowa where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Education. Lydia enjoyed gardening and tending to her flowers, was an avid reader, and was a very generous and giving person, especially to children.
She was a member of the Boone Biblical Memorial Church, where she taught Sunday school, and was politically active and supportive of the Republican Party.
Her parents; husband Glen in February of 1983; 4 brothers, Ed, George, Ernest and Ray; and 3 sisters Helen, Libby and Adeline preceded her in death.
Survivors include her step-son, Richard Deal of Ames; 1 brother Duane Smolik of San Jose, California; several nieces and nephews.
Services will be held on Thursday morning, October 8th at 10:30 a.m. at the Boone Biblical Memorial Church in Boone with Rev. Bruce Thomas officiating.
Interment will be in Highland Memory Gardens in Des Moines, Iowa.
Visitations will be held on Thursday morning at the Church from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service.
Those wishing to express their sympathies through a memorial may direct their gift to the Boone Biblical Ministries.