Laura Thompson Mellor died Monday, September 15, 1986, at the Manning General Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, September 18, at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning with the Rev. Carl Sinning of First Presbyterian church officiating. Peggy Ahrenholtz will be organist and John and George Steenhusen vocalists. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery at Irwin, Iowa. Serving as casketbearers will be John Steenhusen, George Steenhusen, Peter Steenhusen, Edgar Hodne, Selmer Hodne, and Bill Sander.

Mrs. Mellor is survived by three daughters: Mrs. William (Virginia) Drath, San Mateo, California; Mrs. Russell (Joyce) Lathrop, San Mateo, California, and Mrs. Charles (Alys) McMunn, Denver, Colorado; a son, Merlene Thompson and his wife, Carol, Ralston, Nebraska; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law: LaVerne Steenhusen, Irwin, and Alma Steenhusen, a resident of the Manilla, Iowa, Manor; nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, three brothers: John, Peter and Henry Steenhusen, and five sisters: Mary Welch, Dora Andersen, Irena Fossell, Edith Freese, and Alys Rasmussen.

Mrs. Mellor was born at Irwin, Iowa, on July 27, 1898, a daughter of Peter and Emma (Boldt) Steenhusen. She graduated from Irwin High School and the former Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls. She taught in country schools in the area for a short time, attended a business school in Council Bluffs and worked in that city.

On October 16, 1919, she was married to Merlene J. Thompson Sr., at Avoca, Iowa. They farmed in the Manning area until his death in 1958. About a year later, she moved to Denver, Colorado, to be near her daughter, Alys. She worked for a time in Hesteds Store in Denver.

On September 10, 1964, she was married to Ed Mellor. They continued to live in the Denver area for several years before moving to Tucson, Arizona. During this time, she took lessons and did pastel water color painting.

In 1983, the couple moved to the Omaha, Nebraska, area to live with her son, Merlene, and his wife, Carol. Mr. Mellor died on April 15, 1986. On July 11, 1986, she moved to the Manning Plaza Nursing Home where she suffered a stroke about a week before her death.