Mildred Eloise Walters ^{1 2 3 4}

  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, IA on 22 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 79-17, Family 125, Roll 1200
Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States
Home rented, $8
Mildred Connell..Wife..22..IA..3 years college

(Living with husband.)
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• She was buried in July 1980 in the Orange Township Cemetery in Waterloo, IA.

Find A Grave Memorial #95355331
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• Her obituary was published in the Unknown newspaper in July 1980 in Black Hawk County, IA.

Services for Mrs. Mildred Connell, 62, of 8113 Holmes Road, were held at 10:30 AM Thursday at Hudson Community Church with burial in Orange Township Cemetery. She died Tuesday night at Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo. Mrs. Connell was born Aug. 11, 1917, at Guernsey, daughter of Frank L. and Elsie Rose Walter. She married Rollin L. Connell October 23, 1938 in Nashua. Survivors include her husband, a daughter, Nancy Gilbert of Hudson; two grandsons and a sister, LaVonne Carlson of Brooklyn.

(Source: Unknown newspaper)
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Mildred married Rollin Lavon Connell, son of Glenn Alton Connell and Verna Pearl Brannian, on 23 October 1938 in Nashua, IA.^{1 2} (Rollin Lavon Connell was born on 14 July 1915 in Warren Township, Poweshiek County, IA,^{1 2 5 6 7 8 9} died on 23 December 1989 in Waterloo, IA ^{8 9} and was buried after 23 December 1989 in Waterloo, IA ⁹.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, IA on 22 April 1940. ²

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 79-17, Family 125, Roll 1200
Lincoln Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, United States
Home rented, $8
Rollin Connell..Head..24..IA..12th grade..Farmer
Mildred Connell..Wife..22..IA..3 years college
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  Marriage Notes:

They lived on a farm near Hudson, Iowa. (per Dannell Hopkins, http://www.geocities.com/danni_74932/)
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Rollin Lavon Connell was born on July 14, 1915 in Brooklyn, IA. He died on December 23, 1989 in Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, IA. He died after a long illness. He was buried in Orange Township Cemetery, Waterloo, IA. Services were held at Hudson, IA. Rollin was a longtime farmer. They maintained homes at Marion and Hudson.

He was married to Mildred Eloise Walter on October 23, 1938 in Nashua, IA. Mildred was born on August 11, 1917 in Guernsey, Poweshiek Co. IA. She died in 1980 in Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, IA. She was buried in Orange Township Cemetery, Waterloo, IA. The funeral was held at Hudson Community Church.

Rollin Lavon Connell and Mildred Eloise Walter had the following children:

i. daughter Connell
ii. Lowell Franklin Connell was born on January 18, 1944. He died in Dec. 18, 1945

Rollin remarried after Mildred's death to Doris Slater on September 12, 1981 in Marion, IA.

(Source: Ancestry.com, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~connell/index38.htm, Accessed 9 Feb 2014)
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