Luella May TePoel, 86 of Solon, died Saturday, March 12, 2011 at Briarwood Healthcare Center. Services will be 10 A.M. Tuesday, March 15, 2011at Brosh Chapel in Solon. Burial will follow in Oakland Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-7 P.M. Monday at Brosh Chapel in Solon. Brosh Chapel in Solon is in charge of arrangements. Luella was born on December 7, 1924, near Parnell, Iowa, to Anna Mary (Reading) and Bernard Barney Spratt. As a child, she lived on farms near Parnell, Norway and Oxford. She graduated from Oxford High School in 1943. She married Leonard W. TePoel on February 17, 1944. She lived in Baltimore, MD, while he was stationed at Edgewood Arsenal during World War II. She worked as a Rosey the Rivetor at the Glen L. Martin Bomber Plant during that time. After the War, they returned to Iowa, where she assisted in the family garage and trucking business. She was employed by Moore Business Forms in Iowa City for over 20 years, retiring in 1987. Luella enjoyed gardening and playing euchre. For several years was an activities volunteer at the Solon Care Center. She liked to watch the Iowa Hawkeye Football games. She especially enjoyed her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Luella was a member of the Solon American Legion Ladies Auxiliary, past president of the Oxford American Legion Auxiliary, member of the Catholic Foresters, and St. Mary's Catholic Church in Oxford. She is survived by sons Leonard F. (Merry) of Solon and John (Patricia) of Tama. Grandchildren Sherry (Jerry) Reichenbach of North Liberty, Evan (Elisha) TePoel of Solon, Todd TePoel of Denver, CO, Duane (Brenda) TePoel, and Johna (Dave) Nelson of Clear Lake, MN. She is also survived by nine great-grandchildren, Brandon and Logan McNeal, Fiona and Isobel TePoel, Cameron, Jordan, and Lucas TePoel, and Travis and Mandy Nelson, a sister, Winifred Holland, of Iowa City, plus numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers; William Spratt, Richard Spratt and Bernard Spratt, sister; Genevieve McDaniel, and twin sister, Anna Mary Gorvin. Memorials may be directed to the family.