Wreghitt, Margaret 1907 - 1994

WREGHITT, BORTON, MILES

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/21/2013 at 16:04:12

Margaret M. Wreghitt, 87, formerly of Fertile, Iowa, died Wednesday, July
27, 1994, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were held Saturday, July 30 at Church of Christ, Fertile, Iowa,
with the Rev. Dennis Ganz officiating. Interment was in the Pleasant Valley
Cemetery, Swaledale, Iowa. The family suggests memorials to Margaret M. Wreghitt
memorial fund.

Margaret was born Feb. 23, 1907, in LaVoss, Mo., the daughter of Clarence Borton
and Hattie (nee) Miles Borton. She moved with her parents at the age of four to
Clear Lake, where she graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1925.

She married William D. Wreghitt on Feb. 23, 1926 in Garner, Iowa. They farmed in
the Clear Lake, Ventura area until 1940. They moved into Ventura and Bill worked
at the Clear Lake Bakery until 1957. They moved to farming near Hanlontown, Iowa,
until 1962. After Bill's death in 1963 Margaret moved to Fertile. She had been a
resident of Heritage Care Center, Mason City, since 1977.

Margaret loved to garden, bake, read, play the piano, crochet and embroider. She
was a RSVP in home volunteer, and was a member of Church of Christ, Fertile.

She is survived by four children, Betty Ball, Lincoln, Neb., Lloyd Wreghitt and
his wife, Leona, Clear Lake; Nancy Nonweiler and her husband, Dennis, Mason
City

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, is in charge of arrangements.