Nancy Lillian Neal

88 year old Nancy Lillian Neal of Smithville died Monday at NHC Healthcare Center. She was a Pentecostal and a retired shirt factory worker. The funeral will be Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. at DeKalb Funeral Chapel. Frances Foster and Michael Hale will officiate and burial will follow in the Bethel Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from from 10:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Wednesday from 9:00 a.m. until the service at 2:00 p.m. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence Neal; a daughter, Bobbie Jean Houk; her parents, Lemuel Cecil and Lellah Pearl Dutton Hale; five grandchildren; eight brothers, Garland, Truitt, Alvie, Cecil Robert, Bratten, Hubert, Walter Brown, and Arland Hale; and sisters, Estelle Murphy and Mina Belle Page. Survivors include six children, Loretta and husband Calvin Bain, L.W. Neal, Doug and wife Kathy Neal, Linda Knowles, and Pat and husband Chester Sanders all of Smithville and Elaine McGuire of Spencer. Twenty five grandchildren, sixty four great grandchildren, and seventeen great great grandchildren also survive along with two sisters, Thelma Mooneyham and Elsie Miller both of Smithville and a brother, Landon and wife Nell Hale of Smithville. Sisters-in-law, Frances Foster, Macon Hale, and Louise Hale. DeKalb Funeral Chapel is in charge of the arrangements.