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Palma Lee Neal
PALMA LEE NEAL
Cedar Rapids
1/16/18
A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, at the American Legion in Marion, 625 31st St., from 4 to 7 p.m.
Palma was born in Dubuque, Iowa, to Milo Bemrose and Katherine Wiley on Dec. 6, 1947.
Surviving are her brother, Duane (Lucy) Bemrose; three daughters, Jennifer (Jeff) Neumann, Angela (Joe) Novak and Gidget Hardy; and seven grandchildren, Austin Naujoks, Harli Novak, Sydney (Brendan) Schmitt, Jerrico Kopet, Hunter Hardy, Jayden Hardy and Alijiah Hardy, She has seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother; and two brothers, David and Dennis Bemrose.
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