Born May 16, 1918, in Scioto County, Ohio, a daughter of the late Walter S. and Virginia Mansfield Coriell, she was an occupational therapist and had worked for the Receiving Hospital in Portsmouth for 15 years and VA Hospitals in Huntington, W.Va., and Lexington, Ky.

She had worked in Home Health Care in Lawrence and Scioto Counties and taught school in Minford and South Webster School Districts. She was a graduate of Minford High School in the Class of 1935 and attended the former Alfred Holbrook College in Manchester, Ohio, and graduated from The Ohio State University in the Class of 1946.

She was a member of Sunshine Church of Christ near Minford.

She is survived by one niece, Dorothy Pfeifer of Edison, Ohio, and several nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her two brothers, Riley Coriell and Alton Coriell.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27, 2008, at Sunshine Church of Christ near Minford, with Minister Steve Miller and Jonathan Coriell officiating. Burial will be at Batterson Cemetery in Minford. Friends may call from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Sunshine Church of Christ. Arrangements are under the direction of Erwin-Dodson-Allen Funeral Home in Minford.