Lelah Margaret Phinney |
Funeral services will be held on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:30 a.m. at the Riverside Presbyterian Church in Linn Grove. Visitation will take place on Sunday, March 28, 2010 from 5-8:00 p.m. at the Sliefert Funeral Home in Sioux Rapids. Burial will be in the Barnes Township Cemetery in Linn Grove. The Sliefert Funeral Home in Sioux Rapids is in charge of the arrangements. Lil was born in Battle Harbor, Labrador on January 29, 1927 to John and Abigail (Sutton) Rumbolt. Lelah began attending Riverside Presbyterian Church in the spring of 1972, shortly after receiving Jesus Christ as her personal Savior. Lil enjoyed teaching Sunday School, Vacation Bible School and Women’s small groups for over 30 years at the Riverside Presbyterian Church. In 1951, Lil was united in marriage to Charles L. Phinney at the St. John’s Church in Newfoundland. Shortly after her marriage to Chuck, she became a United States Citizen. Together they were blessed with six children: Sheila (1952), Patrick and Michael (1953), Stephen (1955), Donna (1961), and LuCinda (1968). After holding residence in Utah, Texas, England and Kansas, the Phinney family settled in Linn Grove, Iowa in 1968. While in Linn Grove, Chuck and Lil were school custodians for 10 years. Lil’s spiritual gifts include evangelism, exhortation and service. Her outreach, through Christ, has covered some of the most remote parts of the earth through her quilting ministry. Her prayer ministry has blessed the lives of the broken hearted throughout the world, as well as her love and devotion to the Awana program. Lil’s legacy will be lived on the hearts of all those who loved her. “Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, You will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth You will bring me up.” (Psalm 71:20) Those left to cherish her memory include her children: Sheila (Ron) Anderson of Marathon, Iowa; Patrick (Karen) Phinney of Bloomington, Minnesota; Michael (Roxanne) Phinney of Quepos, Costa Rica; Stephen (Jane) Phinney of Sterling, Kansas; LuCinda (Robert) Siekman of Linn Grove, Iowa; her grandchildren: Shaun, Sonya, Heather, Andrea, Scott, Tara, Farrah, Mike Jr., Abigail, Elizabeth, Jessica, Andrew, Eric, Zach; 16 great grandchildren; one brother, Eric Rumbolt of Halifax, Nova Scotia; extended family and friends. Lil was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Charles; daughter, Donna; and 11 brothers and sisters.
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Lelah Margaret Phinney, age 83, of Linn Grove, Iowa. Lil died March 26, 2010 at the Sioux Care Center in Sioux