Marie A. Shaull, 98, passed away Sunday, December 24, 2017, at Cedar Manor Nursing Home in Tipton.
Visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 28, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. Memorials may be made to Rochester United Methodist Church, Friends of South Bethel, Red Oak Church and Cemetery, Cedar Manor or Iowa City Hospice in her memory.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 29, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton, with Pastors Marcus Beebee and Norman Anderson officiating. Pallbearers will be Jeff Dykstra, Chad Shaull, Dean Eilers, Nelson Meyers, Jon Bell and Eddie Bell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ken Ballou, Austin Bell, Paul Bell, Lee Meyers and Jerry Wood. Burial will be in the Red Oak Cemetery, rural Tipton, Iowa.
Marie Alma Eilers was born December 20, 1919, in Cedar County, near Clarence, the daughter of August and Martha (Penningroth) Eilers. She started school at Prairie Flower Country School when she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Tipton Consolidated School in 1937. She was a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Institutional Management with emphasis in Home Economics. The family moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, until 1944, when the family moved to Cedar County. She married LeRoy Kiel Shaull on November 10, 1944, at the Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, rural Tipton. Together they farmed first on the Old Muscatine Road and later a farm located on Red Star Road, until they quit farming and moved to Davenport in February 1956, so that LeRoy could continue his career as an Electrical Engineer at Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company. She was employed as head dietitian for the Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home, until they retired and moved to Tipton. LeRoy preceded her in death on August 5, 1991. She was a member of the Kings Daughters, Tipton and Davenport Lions Club, Women's Club, Cedar County Historical Society and a member of the South Bethel United Methodist Church, until it closed and she transferred her membership to the Rochester United Methodist Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Linda (Dennis) Dykstra of Tipton; one son, Randall (Beth) Shaull of Harrisburg, PA; five grandchildren, Chad Shaull, Jeffery Dykstra, Amy (Oppman) Shaull, Denise Dykstra and August Shaull; and five nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant daughter, Diana Shaull, three sisters, Vera Agne, Bernice Meinholdt and Ruth Bell and two nephews.
Fry Funeral Home
Visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 28, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. Memorials may be made to Rochester United Methodist Church, Friends of South Bethel, Red Oak Church and Cemetery, Cedar Manor or Iowa City Hospice in her memory.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 29, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton, with Pastors Marcus Beebee and Norman Anderson officiating. Pallbearers will be Jeff Dykstra, Chad Shaull, Dean Eilers, Nelson Meyers, Jon Bell and Eddie Bell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ken Ballou, Austin Bell, Paul Bell, Lee Meyers and Jerry Wood. Burial will be in the Red Oak Cemetery, rural Tipton, Iowa.
Marie Alma Eilers was born December 20, 1919, in Cedar County, near Clarence, the daughter of August and Martha (Penningroth) Eilers. She started school at Prairie Flower Country School when she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Tipton Consolidated School in 1937. She was a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Institutional Management with emphasis in Home Economics. The family moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, until 1944, when the family moved to Cedar County. She married LeRoy Kiel Shaull on November 10, 1944, at the Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, rural Tipton. Together they farmed first on the Old Muscatine Road and later a farm located on Red Star Road, until they quit farming and moved to Davenport in February 1956, so that LeRoy could continue his career as an Electrical Engineer at Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company. She was employed as head dietitian for the Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home, until they retired and moved to Tipton. LeRoy preceded her in death on August 5, 1991. She was a member of the Kings Daughters, Tipton and Davenport Lions Club, Women's Club, Cedar County Historical Society and a member of the South Bethel United Methodist Church, until it closed and she transferred her membership to the Rochester United Methodist Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Linda (Dennis) Dykstra of Tipton; one son, Randall (Beth) Shaull of Harrisburg, PA; five grandchildren, Chad Shaull, Jeffery Dykstra, Amy (Oppman) Shaull, Denise Dykstra and August Shaull; and five nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant daughter, Diana Shaull, three sisters, Vera Agne, Bernice Meinholdt and Ruth Bell and two nephews.
Fry Funeral Home
Marie A. Shaull, 98, passed away Sunday, December 24, 2017, at Cedar Manor Nursing Home in Tipton.
Visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 28, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. Memorials may be made to Rochester United Methodist Church, Friends of South Bethel, Red Oak Church and Cemetery, Cedar Manor or Iowa City Hospice in her memory.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 29, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton, with Pastors Marcus Beebee and Norman Anderson officiating. Pallbearers will be Jeff Dykstra, Chad Shaull, Dean Eilers, Nelson Meyers, Jon Bell and Eddie Bell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ken Ballou, Austin Bell, Paul Bell, Lee Meyers and Jerry Wood. Burial will be in the Red Oak Cemetery, rural Tipton, Iowa.
Marie Alma Eilers was born December 20, 1919, in Cedar County, near Clarence, the daughter of August and Martha (Penningroth) Eilers. She started school at Prairie Flower Country School when she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Tipton Consolidated School in 1937. She was a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Institutional Management with emphasis in Home Economics. The family moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, until 1944, when the family moved to Cedar County. She married LeRoy Kiel Shaull on November 10, 1944, at the Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, rural Tipton. Together they farmed first on the Old Muscatine Road and later a farm located on Red Star Road, until they quit farming and moved to Davenport in February 1956, so that LeRoy could continue his career as an Electrical Engineer at Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company. She was employed as head dietitian for the Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home, until they retired and moved to Tipton. LeRoy preceded her in death on August 5, 1991. She was a member of the Kings Daughters, Tipton and Davenport Lions Club, Women's Club, Cedar County Historical Society and a member of the South Bethel United Methodist Church, until it closed and she transferred her membership to the Rochester United Methodist Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Linda (Dennis) Dykstra of Tipton; one son, Randall (Beth) Shaull of Harrisburg, PA; five grandchildren, Chad Shaull, Jeffery Dykstra, Amy (Oppman) Shaull, Denise Dykstra and August Shaull; and five nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant daughter, Diana Shaull, three sisters, Vera Agne, Bernice Meinholdt and Ruth Bell and two nephews.
Fry Funeral Home
Visitation will be 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., Thursday, December 28, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton. Memorials may be made to Rochester United Methodist Church, Friends of South Bethel, Red Oak Church and Cemetery, Cedar Manor or Iowa City Hospice in her memory.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, December 29, at Fry Funeral Home in Tipton, with Pastors Marcus Beebee and Norman Anderson officiating. Pallbearers will be Jeff Dykstra, Chad Shaull, Dean Eilers, Nelson Meyers, Jon Bell and Eddie Bell. Honorary Pallbearers will be Ken Ballou, Austin Bell, Paul Bell, Lee Meyers and Jerry Wood. Burial will be in the Red Oak Cemetery, rural Tipton, Iowa.
Marie Alma Eilers was born December 20, 1919, in Cedar County, near Clarence, the daughter of August and Martha (Penningroth) Eilers. She started school at Prairie Flower Country School when she was 4 years old. She graduated from the Tipton Consolidated School in 1937. She was a graduate of Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Institutional Management with emphasis in Home Economics. The family moved to Webster Groves, Missouri, until 1944, when the family moved to Cedar County. She married LeRoy Kiel Shaull on November 10, 1944, at the Red Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, rural Tipton. Together they farmed first on the Old Muscatine Road and later a farm located on Red Star Road, until they quit farming and moved to Davenport in February 1956, so that LeRoy could continue his career as an Electrical Engineer at Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric Company. She was employed as head dietitian for the Iowa Annie Wittenmyer Home, until they retired and moved to Tipton. LeRoy preceded her in death on August 5, 1991. She was a member of the Kings Daughters, Tipton and Davenport Lions Club, Women's Club, Cedar County Historical Society and a member of the South Bethel United Methodist Church, until it closed and she transferred her membership to the Rochester United Methodist Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Linda (Dennis) Dykstra of Tipton; one son, Randall (Beth) Shaull of Harrisburg, PA; five grandchildren, Chad Shaull, Jeffery Dykstra, Amy (Oppman) Shaull, Denise Dykstra and August Shaull; and five nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, an infant daughter, Diana Shaull, three sisters, Vera Agne, Bernice Meinholdt and Ruth Bell and two nephews.
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