Biographies and Obituaries
In loving memory
Eleanor Kinnaman Purcell
Washington Time-Herald
19 May 2009
MOORESVILLE — Eleanor Kinnaman Purcell, 87, died Tuesday at St. Francis
Hospital, Beech Grove. Born June 4, 1921, near Montgomery, she was the
daughter of Clifford and Ufa (Wise) Kinnaman. A 1939 graduate of Montgomery
High School, she worked as a store clerk in various retail stores. She
enjoyed teaching Sunday school, planting and tending to her flowers,
and was a proud member of the RedKey Town and Country Homemaker’s Exchange
Club. She had been a resident of Miller’s Merry Manor in Mooresville
for the last 2 1/2 years. She is survived by one son, D. Glenn Purcell
of Edwardsburg, Mich.; one daughter, Carol A. McMaster of Mooresville;
sisters, Jean Critchlow of Ellettsville, Marie Haskins of Washington,
and Norma Hicks of Spring Hill, Tenn.; three grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren. Her husband, L. Lloyd Purcell, whom she married
April 3, 1949, died in 1999. Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m.
Thursday at White Lick Cemetery, Mooresville, with Rev. Dennis Payton
officiating. There will be no visitation. Preferred memorials are to
American Heart Association or to the American Lung Association. Arrangements
are being made through Carlisle and Son Funeral Chapel, Mooresville.
(May 19, 2009)
Contributed by: LJG