Mabel Marie Dowell, Lebo
Mabel Marie Dowell died Monday, Sept. 10, 2007, at the Sunset Manor Nursing Home in Waverly. She was 83.
Mrs. Dowell worked at a sewing factory and for the Humphreys family from 1969 to 1991.
The daughter of Homer and Olive Herman Smith, she was born Oct. 30, 1923, at Quenemo. She married Lloyd Dowell on Oct. 30, 1942, at Ottawa. He survives.
Mrs. Dowell was a member of the Lebo Baptist Church and a Bible study group. She was a member of the Red Hat Society.
She also is survived by two daughters, Tonya McClaflin of Westphalia and Janice Giguere of Valley View, Texas; one son, Floyd Dowell of Rose Hill; one brother, LeRoy Smith of New Britain, Penn.; nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Lebo Baptist Church. Burial will be in Arvonia Cemetery, north of Lebo. The family will meet friends from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Jones VanArdale Funeral Home in Lebo.
Memorial contributions to the Sunset Manor may be sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 43, Lebo, KS 66856.