Obituary of Dolores E. Ackley

Dolores E. Ackley, 98, longtime resident of the Tiffin area, died Tuesday, June 3, 2014, at the Lantern Park Nursing & Rehab Center in Coralville. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm Friday, June 6, 2014, at Gay & Ciha Funeral Service – Oxford Chapel with burial to follow at Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Oxford. Visitation will be from 12 noon till services at the chapel on Friday. A memorial fund has been established in her memory. Online condolences may be sent for her family through the web @ www.gayandciha.com. Dolores Elizabeth Fiser was born November 2, 1915, in Ladora, Iowa, the daughter of Isaac E. and Adria A. (Close) Fiser. She graduated from Marengo High School in 1933. On November 13, 1937, she married Wendell P. Ackley in Hannibal, MO. The couple lived in the Tiffin area most of their married lives. For over 30 years she worked in the housekeeping department of the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, retiring in 1987. Her family includes her daughter and son-in-law, Virjean and Keith Cellman of Oxford; 4 grandchildren, Linda Allen (Greg), Diana Pence (Chuck), Mike Cellman, and Denise Odgen (Scott); 10 great-grandchildren, Lindsay Pleckler, Mallory Allen, Amanda Wolfe, John Cellman, Chelsey Pence, Hayley Pence, Casey Pence, Chloe Pence, Riley Ogden and Owen Ogden; 4 great-great grandchildren and her sister-in-law, Marguerite Ackley of Marion. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 2 brothers, 1 sister, and a great-great grandson.