Nancy Russell

NANCY RUSSELL MUSCATINE, Iowa - Nancy Russell, 76, of Muscatine, passed away on Wednesday, November 22, 2017, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City. Visitation will be held from 4 until 7 p.m. on Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at the VFW on 1415 Grand Avenue in Muscatine. Burial will take place at St. Mary's Cemetery at a later date. Memorials can be made to the family, in care of, Greg Russell. The family would like to give special thanks to the Grandview Fire Department, First Responders, Unity Emergency Room, and Mercy ICU staff. Online condolences: www.wittichfuneralhome.com Nancy was born on August 25, 1941 in Muscatine, the daughter of Virgil and Della Hopewell Manley. She married Dave Russell on September 22, 1962, in Aledo, Illinois. He preceded her in death in 1988. Nancy lived in the home she and Dave built, near Grandview, since the early 70's. She was a devoted wife and mother. She enjoyed spending time with her family. Nancy had many different jobs and great friends. She was a Hawkeye fanatic and enjoyed going to games and spending time with friend Bonnie Link. Mom danced, ...[more]

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ked in the Bix, and enjoyed going on trips to Branson with her neighbor and friend Bev Weber. She really missed Joyce Noah, who had passed on years earlier. Over the years there were happy times spent at the cabin on the Iowa River, summer fish fry's and Thanksgiving with her Hopewell relatives. For a number of years our family would get together, with neighbors, to make a float for the 4th of July parade. Mom was very artistic. She canned, crocheted, loved gardening, and arrow head hunting. She was very excited one day when she thought she found broken Indian Pottery in the garden. She was telling everyone about it but found out later that Don Noah had purposely spread pieces of a broken clay pot as a joke - good times! Nancy loved animals and her pets. She let her kids raise just about every kind of animal there was roaming around inside and outside. She will be deeply missed by her children, David Russell III, of Muscatine, Wendy O'Toole and husband, Sean, of Missouri, and Gregory Russell and wife, Sherry, of Wapello; nine grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; a brother, Barry; and three sisters, Ressa, Jennifer, and Carla. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one brother, Keith; and a daughter, Holly, in 2011.