Sybil Puls
Sybil S. Puls
October 08, 1934 – December 27, 2010
Visitation: 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., with the family present to greet friends from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 30, 2010 at Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell
Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m., Friday, December 31, 2010 at Trinity Lutheran Church north of Malcom
Interment: following the service on Friday, December 31, 2010 at Trinity Lutheran Cemetery north of Malcom
Memorials: Alzheimer’s Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011.
Sybil Shirley Puls was born the daughter of Price Shaw and Sylvia Dykes on October 8, 1934 in Malcom, Iowa. She was raised in Malcom and she graduated Valedictorian of the 1952 Malcom High School graduating class.
Sybil was united in marriage to James Puls, Sr. on August 13, 1952 at the Trinity Lutheran Church north of Malcom. The couple lived on the family farm north of Malcom until 1989 when they moved to the Porter Edition south of Grinnell. Following the death of her husband in 1994, she moved to Grinnell.
She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, the Grinnell Eagles Auxiliary, Malcom Legion Auxiliary, and a forty-three year member of the Grinnell Women’s Bowling League. She was an excellent cook and an immaculate housekeeper. She dearly loved her family, especially her grandchildren. Her enjoyments included golfing, bowling, watching Iowa Hawkeyes basketball games on TV, canning vegetables from her garden, and listening to country western music.
Sybil is survived by three sons, James (Marcia) Puls, Jr., Dale (Cathy) Puls and Gary Puls, all of Grinnell; two daughters, Shirley (Reed) Hoeppner of Marengo, Iowa and Linda (Dan) Baumgartner of Readlyn, Iowa; seven grandchildren; four step grandchildren; two great grandchildren; a sister, Mertie Kinnaird of East Dubuque, Illinois; and a brother, Preston Shaw of Malcom. Sybil was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, James Puls, Sr. on November 27, 1994; her brother, Bill Shaw; and her special friend, Ray Clifton.
