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OBITUARY: Dorothy Estella Nicola Tesdell

Dorothy Estella Nicola Tesdell passed away peacefully on Saturday, March 22, at Briarwood Health Care Center. 

There will be a memorial gathering at a later date.

Dorothy was born April 8, 1930, to Wallace E. and Gertrude (Stutsman) Nicola in Iowa City, Iowa. She graduated from Clinton High School in 1948 and attended the University of Iowa, earning her nursing diploma in 1951. She married Mel Tesdell in 1957 and they had two daughters, Marie and Martha.

Dorothy was an operating room nurse at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 1975 until her retirement in 1992. She spent her retirement on the family farm in rural Kalona.

Dorothy is survived by daughters Marie Vlasin of Houston, Texas and Mart (Robert) Sieren, of rural Kalona, two grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

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