Anna Mae Norvell

Anna Mae Swank Norvell, 87, of Newton, went to be with her Lord Wednesday, March 20, 2019, at MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center.

Mae’s funeral service will begin at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 23 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory. The service will be conducted by Pastor Aaron Gunsaulus of the Christian Reformed Church in Newton.

The family will greet friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, March 22 at the funeral home. Burial will be at the Restland Cemetery in Baxter. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to the Newton Christian Reformed Church. Memorials may be left at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory in Newton. If you are mailing the memorial to the funeral home, please add, Attn: Norvell Family on the envelope.

Those left to cherish Mae’s memory are her sons, David B. (Marcia) Norvell of Largo, Fla., and Chris (Jennifer “Jen”) Norvell of Newton; five grandchildren, Jordan Norvell, Allie Norvell, Myzsaa Norvell, Michael Wells and Jennifer Wells; two great-grandchildren, Misa Wells and Jacob Showalter; her brother, Fred Swank of Newton; her sister, Barbara Hartgers of Newton; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Willard; daughter, Billie Jean Warner; brothers, Pete Swank and Jim Swank; and sisters, Margaret Wearmouth and Louise McKinney.