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Sealls, Doris M.
Doris M. Sealls, 95, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Martelle and Olin, died Thursday, March 18, 2010, at The Woodlands/The Meth-Wick Community in Cedar Rapids. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 22, at Lahey Funeral Home in Olin, with Pastor Pat Slater officiating. Family and friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Olin Cemetery.
Doris Maxine Clark was born Jan. 13, 1915, in Linn County, Iowa, to Burtie Jay Clark and Frances Austa (Arbingast) Clark.
She graduated from Martelle High School, Martelle, Iowa. She married Edmond Thomas Sealls on July 6, 1937, in Lebanon, Mo. He died in August 1990. She worked in the cafeteria at McKinley Junior High and retired from Armstrong's in Cedar Rapids.
She is survived by two sons, Burl Sealls of Des Moines and Craig (Gretchen) Sealls of Cedar Rapids; three grandchildren,
Nicholas Sealls of Austin, Texas, Travis (Whitney) Sealls of Indianapolis and Courtney (Sandy) Sanfilippo of Sicily, Italy; three great-grandchildren, Alfio and Alejandro Clark Sanfilippo and Alden Sealls; and one brother, Homer (Lorraine) Clark of Anamosa.
She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents.
Memorials may be given to Mercy Hospice.
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