LUNBECK, Mearle A.

LUNBECK, CHRISTENSEN, HOLLAND, DILLAVOU, SWIFT, FLATNESS, BUTLER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/16/2013 at 09:35:18

MEARLE A. LUNBECK

CLEAR LAKE - Mearle A. Lunbeck, 84, of 309 S. Eighth St., Clear Lake, passed Tuesday (Feb. 26, 2008) peacefully at her home.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 29, at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dean Hess officiating. Interment will be in the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, and one hour before the service on Friday at the church. Family suggests memorials to Mearle A Lunbeck Memorial Fund.

Mearle was born Oct. 27, 1923, in Story City, the daughter of Orvie M. and Hannah (Christensen) Holland. She graduated from Story City High School in 1943.

Mearle married Marvin H. Lunbeck on Jan. 14, 1947, in Kansas City. In 1955 they moved from Ames to Clear Lake. In 1965 she began working for St. Joseph Mercy Hospital for 13 years as a chief admitting clerk.

She was a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Her family meant the world to her. She was active in Zion Lutheran Church as a former Sunday school teacher and enjoyed singing in the choir.

Mearle is survived by her husband of 61 years, Marvin Lunbeck of Clear Lake; three daughters, Sandy Dillavou and her husband, Dick, of Clear Lake, Deborah Swift and her husband, Alan, of Hayden, Idaho, and Marvel Flatness and her husband, Marvin, of Lanesboro, Minn.; six grandchildren, Dawn Mennenga and her husband, Todd, Chris Dillavou and his wife, Autumn, Margo Crabb and her husband, Mike, Melissa DeVisser and her husband, Jeree, McKenzy Flatness and Morgan Flatness; nine great-grandchildren, Dalton, Danielle Mennenga, Mariah, Kori and Austin Dillavou, Paige and Ben Crabb, Tyler and Lilly DeVisser; and one sister, Ordale Fisher, Hill City, Minn.

Mearle was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Shirley Butler; brother, Charles Holland; and one granddaughter, Tamala Dillavou.

Mearle spent a lifetime enriching everyone that was blessed enough to meet her. She will be missed.