{"id":7817,"date":"2019-08-25T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=7817"},"modified":"2019-08-27T17:11:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T22:11:42","slug":"mabel-pettlon-elvers-cedar-rapids-iowa-formerly-of-elkader-iowa-august-25-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2019\/08\/mabel-pettlon-elvers-cedar-rapids-iowa-formerly-of-elkader-iowa-august-25-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Mabel Pettlon-Elvers, Cedar Rapids, Iowa formerly of Elkader, Iowa, August 25, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Mabel Pettlon-Elvers, 84, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa formerly of Elkader, Iowa<\/strong> died Sunday, August 25, 2019 at St. Luke\u2019s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was born June 27, 1935, at home, in Hazleton, Iowa, to Leslie E. and Eleanor M. (Satterlee) Davis. Mabel was baptized on April 12, 1936.Mabel was a 1952 graduate of Stanley Consolidated High School at the age of 16.\u00a0 She was united in marriage to John Strawn in June 1956. John Jr. and Janell were born to this union.\u00a0 She married LeRoy Pettlon in November 1980. Growing up she worked hard on family farms and eventually moved to Cedar Rapids. She worked as an Accountant for many years at Maurice T. Breen Co, CPA, in Cedar Rapids, Bezdek\u2019s Floral \u2013 Garden Center in Marion, Parker Hannifin Corporation in Hiawatha. She found joy in working with numbers.<\/p>\n

Mabel was united in marriage to Donald D. Elvers on her birthday in 1998. The couple then moved to their dream home in Elkader shortly afterwards. Mabel retired as Office Secretary-Treasurer at Bethany Lutheran Church in Elkader in June 2010. She lived in retirement communities in Cedar Rapids following Don\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Mabel enjoyed gardening, cooking, baking, dancing and hosting family gatherings.<\/p>\n

She is survived by her children John C. Strawn, Jr. (Diane) of Clive, IA and Janell M. Holub (and friend Tony) of Cedar Rapids; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews; brothers and sisters, Miriam D. Miller of Council Bluffs, IA; Leonta B. Elsamiller of Denver, IA; Virgil B. Davis (Lucy) of Rhinelander, WI; and Susan J. Scott (Larry) of Independence, IA.<\/p>\n

Mabel was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, LeRoy Pettlon and Donald D. Elvers<\/p>\n

Visitation<\/strong>: Thursday, August 29, 2019 from 5 to 7 PM at Stewart-Baxter Funeral Home in Cedar Rapids<\/p>\n

Funeral Services<\/strong>: Friday, August 30, 2019 at 10 AM at Stewart-Baxter Funeral Home in Cedar Rapids. Rev. Susan Friedrich will officiate.<\/p>\n

Burial<\/strong> will follow at Cedar Memorial Cemetery in Cedar Rapids.<\/p>\n

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Elkader, Iowa is helping the family with the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mabel Pettlon-Elvers, 84, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa formerly of Elkader, Iowa died Sunday, August 25, 2019 at St. Luke\u2019s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She was born June 27, 1935, at home, in Hazleton, Iowa, to Leslie E. and Eleanor M. (Satterlee) Davis. Mabel was baptized on April 12, 1936.Mabel was a 1952 graduate of Stanley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[678],"class_list":["post-7817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-elvers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7817"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7827,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7817\/revisions\/7827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}