Mandel, Leona Pauline Miller Bare (1920-2003)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2003 Apr 14 p. 15

Birth date: 1920 Aug 15

text of obituary:

LEONA MANDEL,

Leona Pauline Miller Bare Mandel, 82, of Kalona, Iowa, died March 21, 2003. She was born Aug. 15, 1920, to Jacob P. and Emma Mae Yoder Miller of Kalona.

She attended Snake Hollow rural school and graduated from Kalona High School in 1938. She taught school for one year before marrying Melvin Bare on June 8, 1941. The couple lived and farmed in the Kalona area for many years. He died in 1966. She then married Jacob (Bill) Mandel on Nov. 5, 1971, in Kalispell, Mont. They lived in Montana until his death in January of 1986. She then returned to Kalona. She was a lifelong member of East Union Mennonite Church. She was also a member of Mountain View Mennonite Church in Kalispell during her years there. She taught Sunday school and Bible school.

She had a great sense of humor and this made her an enjoyable person to be with. Making quilts was a pastime that gave her and her family much pleasure. Leona appreciated all her family and friends and loved visits from her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include a son, James Bare and his wife, Lois, of New Haven, Conn.; a daughter, Judy Goodrich and her husband, Robert, of Wellman; a brother, Chester Miller of Hesston, Kan.; four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husbands, Melvin Bare and Bill Mandel; a brother, Lawrence Miller; and a sister, Eldora Preston.