LEONA KUNKEL OF VULCAN, FORMERLY OF LOMOND AND THE ARMADA DISTRICT, PASSED AWAY AT THE VULCAN GENERAL HOSPITAL ON AUGUST 31, 1990 AT THE AGE OF 78 YEARS.
LEONA WAS BORN AT BELLE VALLEY, OHIO ON MARCH 17, 1912, THE ELDEST CHILD OF JUSTUS AND ETHEL (NEE DUDLEY) SEALOCK. SHE CAME TO HOMESTEAD WITH HER PARENTS IN APRIL OF THE SAME YEAR TO WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE BRUNETTA DISTRICT, LATER TO BE KNOWN AS THE ARMADA DISTRICT. LEONA RECEIVED HER SCHOOLING AT THE SUNNY PLAINS SCHOOL. IN 1933, SHE MARRIED NORMAN KUNKEL AND THEY FARMED IN THE DISTRICT UNTIL RETIRING IN 1963 TO LOMOND AND LATER TO THE PETER DAWSON LODGE IN VULCAN, THEN TO VULCAN EXTENDICARE.
LEONA WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE ARMADA COMMUNITY CLUB AND LATER A MEMBER OF THE LOMOND ANGLICAN GUILD.
SHE LOVED HER FAMILY. IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF HER LIFE. SHE WAS A REAL HOMEMAKER AND ENJOYED HER GARDEN AND CANNING. ONE OF THE THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT HER WAS HER JOY IN CONVERSATION, WHICH IS A SEALOCK TRAIT! LEONA ATTENDED VULCANS JULY 28 CELEBRATION, THE ONE THING THAT SHE ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT AS HER MOST GRATEFUL EVENT WAS A BUGGY RIDE THAT DAY.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY HER SON BOB AND HIS WIFE KAREN OF LOMOND, TWO DAUGHTERS IRENE AND LEONARD KIEMELE AND BETTY DOMOLEWSKI, BOTH OF MILO, SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN, SEVEN GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, THREE BROTHERS ELMER AND JEAN SEALOCK OF CALGARY, GLENN AND BIRDELLA SEALOCK OF LOMOND AND CHARLES AND JEAN SEALOCK OF VULCAN AND NUMEROUS NIECES AND NEPHEWS.
LEONA WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND NORMAN IN APRIL OF 1988, HER PARENTS, TWO BROTHERS AND A SON-IN-LAW.
FUNERAL SERVICES WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1990 AT 2 PM AT THE VULCAN UNITED CHURCH, WITH REV. BEV HILL OFFICIATING.
INTERMENT VULCAN CEMETERY.
PALLBEARERS WERE RAYMOND BEAGLE, BOB STOKES, GORDON LUCAS, VIC BIRKENES, IRVIN BENNETT AND STAN HENRICKSON.
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