Agnela E.  Showalter, 90, of 1202  First St. SW,  died Sunday morning,
Jan. 15,  1995, in Hospice Kavanagh  House, Des Moines,  after a short
illness. Services: 1:30 p.m.  Wednesday, Kuba Funeral Home East, where
friends may  call from 2 to 8  p.m. today and after  9 a.m. Wednesday,
and  where  a wake  service  begins at  7  tonight.   The Rev.  Joseph
Schneider of  St. Patrick's  Catholic Church will  officiate.  Burial:
Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Surviving is a son, Gerald of Cedar Rapids.

Also surviving are a sister-in-law,  Helen Adams of New Hampton; seven
grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.

Angela was  born Feb.  12, 1904,  to Lee and  Margaret Meirs  Adams in
North Washington, Iowa, where she married John Cyril Showalter on June
1, 1932.   He died  Oct. 16, 1969.  She had  been a resident  of Cedar
Rapids since 1954 and was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church.


Cedar Rapids Gazette
January 17, 1995