Jean L. Dean

Jean Lucille Dean, 79, of Danville, died Saturday, Dec. 15, at Great River Medical Center Klein's Center.

Visitation will be held from noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18 in Lunning Chapel, where the family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. A funeral service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 19, in Lunning Chapel, with the Rev. Bob Patton officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery west of Danville.

Memorials have been established for Southeast Iowa Dialysis Unit and Danville United Methodist Church.

She was born Nov. 24, 1928 in Des Moines County, the daughter of Joseph Grinstead and Laura Thomes Grinstead Sams. On Oct. 30, 1948, she married Grant Gordon Dean in Burlington.

A graduate of Danville High School, she was a homemaker, and also co-owned and operated Dean's Conoco in Danville along with her husband. She was a member of Danville United Methodist Church.

She is survived by two sons, Stanley Dean and his wife Marianne and Patrick Dean and his wife Donna, all of Danville; one daughter, Brenda Gearhart and her husband Jeff of Burlington; five sisters, Delora Grinstead and Lois Osborne of Burlington, Doris Jones of Boonesville, Ark., JoAnn Bjorge of Osage Beach, Mo., and Mary Alice Deck of Marshall, Mo.; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Her parents, husband, and brothers Ray "Dee" and Dale Grinstead preceded her in death.