Alice Lillian Zercher 3 months old, May 1884
William Alfred Donnell & Alice Lillian Zercher September 1904
William Alfred Donnell & Alice Lillian Zercher
Alice Lillian Zercher & William Alfred Donnell May 9, 1921
"Alice"
Alice Lillian M. Zercher
America Kemper Zercher & Alice Lillian Zercher
All Photos courtesy of Joseph Bradford Donnell

Zercher Family Portrait

Mrs. Alice Donnell Called by Death

Mrs. Alice Lillian Donnell, 61, of 517 Clermont, a charter member of Mount Auburn Christian Church, died at a local hospital Monday after a brief illness.

For the last twenty-five years Mrs. Donnell had served as pianist for the Men's Bible Class of the church and was for many years a teacher in the Sunday School. She was a native of Marion, Kan., but had lived in Dallas for fifty-two years.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Mount Auburn Christian Church, Gunter and Graham, with the Rev. L. B. Blackman officiating. Burial will be in Restland Memorial Park.

Mrs. Donnell is survived by her husband, W. A. Donnell; a son, Alfred A. Donnell, and two grand-children.

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ACTIVE CHURCH WORKER DIES

Mrs. W. A. Donnell, 517 Clermont, resident of Dallas since 1893 and a prominent church worker at the Mount Auburn Christian Church, died Monday at Methodist Hospital after suffering a heart attack Sunday.

Mrs. Donnell, a native of Marion, Kan., resided there before coming to Dallas. She was born Feb. 22. 1884.

Survivors are her husband, an employee of the Union Terminal Company; a son, Alfred B. Donnell, and two grandchildren, James Alfred and Stanley Joe Donnell.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Mount Auburn Christian Church, Rev. Lester B. Rickman officiating.

Pallbearers will be J. E. Boyd, John Pace, James D. McBride, Ben Jackson, W. C. Tatom and L. N. Olliphant.

Dallas Morning News

DONNELL
William A. passed away Sunday. Residence. 4203 De Lee. Survived by son. Alfred B. Donnell: two grandchildren. all of Dallas: sister Mrs. M. Shultz, Hereford, Texas. Services Monday 4 p.m., Marrs-Mundy-Quill Chapel. Rev. Lamar Hocker officiating. Interment Restland Memorial Park. Pallbearers: Alonzo Gray, H. F. Brooks, J. H. Ballinger, B. C. Snyder, L. B. Tiner, J. E. Pace.
MARRS-MUNDY-QUILL
3000 Maple. R1-3121

Child of Alice Lillian Zercher and William Alfred Donnell:

F1 Alfred Bearce Donnell, born March 6, 1906 in Kemp, Texas, died June 21, 1961 in Dallas, Texas (view Death Certificate); married Bessie Mae Mayfield in Dallas, Texas. Bessie Mae Mayfield was born February 17, 1911 in Lawton, Oklahoma, died 2003.

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