Dorcas N. SeawellDorcas Naomi Seawell, 92, Windfall, died at 10:50
a.m. Monday, October 15, 2007 at Tipton Hospital. She was born May
3, 1915 in Westfield to Alva O. & Sarah Mabel (Eisenhour) Hinshaw.
On September 5, 1941, she married Asa Waldo Seawell and he survives.She worked alongside her husband Waldo in his
ministry and was very active in church activities. She had belonged
to Friends Churches in Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina and Iowa. Dorcas had
lived in Bolivia as the daughter of missionary parents and wrote a book
about her family's experiences.She is survived by five children, Esther Mae Kirkham
and husband John, West Palm Beach, Florida, Stephen Waldo Seawell and wife
Jane, Wichita, Kansas, Judith Carol Zeikle and husband Chuck, Kansas City,
Missouri, Matthew Carlton Seawell and wife Beth, Greentown, and Alva
Timothy Seawell and wife Carol, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania; One sister,
Sarah Suarez, Richmond; one brother, Joseph Hinshaw, Alexandria, Virginia;
14 grandchildren, Marwin Kirkham, Elaine Kirkham Polania, Jan Seawell
Reckers, Anthony Zeikle, Sarah Zeikle Bledsoe, Meghan Zeikle, Cami Seawell
Thomas, Cheryl Seawell, Cara Seawell Tarrh, Ryan Seawell, Jeremy Seawell,
Lindsey Seawell, Brandon Seawell and Erin Seawell. She also has
eight great-grandchildren, Mason, Chase and McKenna Kirkham, Caleb and
Alison Zeikle, Andrew Bledsoe, Justin Polania and Lexi Tarrh.Dorcas was preceded in death by two brothers, Basil
Hinshaw and James Hinshaw, and two sisters, Alice Smoker and Esther
Zimmerman.Her funeral will be at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, October
18 at Young-Nichols Funeral Home with Revs. Chris Ellis and John Clark.
Burial will follow in Brookside Cemetery, Windfall. Visitation will
be from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.