Timmins, Eleanor Rebecca Sanders

Eleanor Rebecca Sanders Timmins, 73, of Washington, Iowa, died Monday, Feb. 25, 2013, at the M.L. McCreedy Home in Washington.

Celebration of Life services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at the United Methodist Church in Washington with the Rev. Jim Stiles officiating. Visitation begins at noon Wednesday at the Jones & Eden Funeral Home where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Interment will take place at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington, Iowa. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Eleanor R. Timmins Nursing Scholarship for a Washington High School Senior. Online condolences may be sent for Eleanor's family through the Web at .

Eleanor is survived by daughter, Patricia Sinn and husband, Greg, of Washington, Iowa; son, Kevin Timmins and wife, Karen Michaeli, of Iowa City, Iowa; daughter, Rebecca Sisler and husband, Michael, of Crystal Lake, Ill.; and daughter, Martha Powers and husband, Todd, of Dysart, Iowa; eight grandchildren, Alexandria and Bryce Sinn, Rebecca Michaeli, Samuel and Lilli Sisler, and Audrey, Henry, and Ava Powers; brother, Kenwood Sanders of Washington, Iowa; brother, Frank Sanders and wife, Paula, of Boise, Idaho; and sister, Ren Ella Crawford and partner, Don Wonderlich, of Ollie, Iowa.

Published Feb. 27, 2013 in The Gazette