GROEN, Myrtle (COOPER)

COOPER, GROEN, WALLER

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 6/10/2013 at 16:19:54

Obituary - Myrtle (Cooper) Groen
1900 ~ 1987

Mount Ayr Record News
Mount Ayr, Ringgold County, Iowa

Funeral services were held Saturday, August 1, at First Reformed Church, Meservey, Iowa, for Mrs. Bert (Myrtle) Groen, 87, of Meservey.

She died Wednesday, July 29, 1987, at a Belmond nursing home.

The Rev. Rodney Meester officiated and burial was in the Meservey cemetery.

She was born July 8, 1900, in Ellston, the daugher of Alfred E. and Lillie B. (Waller) Cooper.

She attended Ellston schools and Iowa Teachers College, Cedar Falls.

She taugh school in Meservey in 1925 and 1926. She continued to teach school in Bode and Sioux Rapids until her marriage.

On July 3, 1930, she married Bert Groen in the Little Brown church, Nashua.

The couple lived in the Meservey and Goodell areas where they operated two gas stations in Goodell until moving to Arkansas. They returned to Meservey in 1980 after retirement.

Survivors include her husband, Bert of Meservey, and a brother, Roy Cooper, Mount Ayr, Iowa.

Mrs. Groen was preceded in death by her parents and four sisters.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, June of 2012