Millus Ann (EASTMAN) CHARLSON
EASTMAN, CHARLSON, STEPHENS, HATOUM, FERRY, EDEN, LAWLER, JENKINS
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/17/2011 at 16:58:37
Obituary - Millus Ann Eastman Charlson
Clear Lake Mirror Reporter
Clear Lake, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Thursday, December 6, 2007Millus Anne EASTMAN CHARLSON, 69, of 512 8th Ave. N., Clear Lake, died Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 at Muse Norris Hospice, Mason City, Iowa.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Dec. 11 at United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Diana A. HOOVER officiating. Burial followed at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City.
Family suggests memorials to Clear Lake United Methodist Church or Hospice of North Iowa.
Millus was born April 1, 1938 in Mason City, the daughter of Donald S. and Liberty M. (STEPHENS) EASTMAN. She attended elementary school in Clear Lake, graduated from West High Waterloo, and earned her Bachelors Degree from University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Millus married Roger E. CHARLSON on July 1963 at Trinity Lutheran Church, Waterloo. They lived in Clarion, Iowa then Fort Dodge, Iowa where Millus worked as a telephone switchboard operator and then as receptionist for Ft. Dodge Labs and Iowa Beef. Divorced, Millus returned to Waterloo to work with the State of Iowa Soil Conservation. Later she moved to Clear Lake where she recently worked with the Girl Scout office in Mason City. She loved to be with family, play piano, sew, bake, work with ceramics, and play cards at Singles Club. Millus was active in church choir, bells, and taught Sunday School.
She is survived by her four children: son, Steven E. CHARLSON (wife Alison) Des Moines, daughter Anne M. CHARLSON HATOUM (husband Nassir) of West Des Moines, daughter Carolyn K. CHARLSON FERRY of Eagle Grove, and daughter Susan E. CHARLSON of Eagle Grove, a sister Miriam EDEN (husband Jim) of Colorado, and ex-husband Roger E. CHARLSON of Fort Dodge. 13 grandchildren: Emily CHARLSON, Kevin CHARLSON, Steven CHARLSON, John CHARLSON, Nicholaus FERRY, Mason FERRY, Stephanie FERRY, Jordan FERRY, Brooklynn FERRY, Kaitlynn FERRY, Eric LAWLER, Faith LAWLER, and Ashley LAWLER.
She was preceded in death by her father and step-mother Don & Myra EASTMAN of Clear Lake, mother & step-father Liberty & Lyle JENKINS of Waterloo, and brother Earl James EASTMAN of Clear Lake.
Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St., Clear Lake, Iowa 641-357-2193. www.colonialchapel.com
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2011
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