Alice Arnold Grand River

Alice Arnold, 84, of Grand River died April 26, 2015, at Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr.

Funeral services were held 1:30 a.m. Friday, May 1, at Slade-O’Donnell Funeral Home in Leon. The Rev. Rick Hawkins officiated. Burial was in Grand River Cemetery.

Alice May Arnold, daughter of Orel and Beryl Boles, was born March 13, 1931.

Alice attended Brisk School for elementary, Leon High School for three years and Van Wert High School for her senior year, graduating in 1950.

On April 30, 1951, Alice married Dale Edward Arnold at Shephard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas.

Over the years, Alice worked at several places including Decatur County Hospital as a medical librarian, Whitfield Feed and Hatchery as a bookkeeper and Metcalf Drug, all before attending Southwestern Community College. In 1975, Alice graduated with an LPN degree in nursing. She worked at Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr for more than 20 years.

Alice is survived by her husband Dale Arnold of Grand River; sons, Gary Arnold and Randy Arnold, both of Grand River; grandchildren, Dale Randall Arnold, Kara Arnold and Curtis and Meghin and David Blythe; great-grandchildren, Gavin and Jayce; siblings, David and Mardell Boles and Susie and Keith Wood, all of Iowa, Anne and Richard Rieb of Colorado and Mary Boles and Lorraine Johnson, both of Washington; and other relatives and friends.

Alice was preceded in death by her parents and great-granddaughter Lexy.