DICKINSON, Marian Phyllis

DICKINSON, ORR, THOMPSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/11/2018 at 05:02:02

Obituary ~ Marian Phyllis Dickinson
October 26, 1918 ~ October 11, 2005

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October 13, 2005

MASON CITY --- Marian P. Dickinson, 86, of 302 Second St. N.W., died Tuesday (Oct. 11, 2005) at Good Shepherd Health Center.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Friday at the First United Methodist Church, 119 S. Georgia Ave., with the Rev. Jim Stiles and the Rev. Jo Frahm-Watkins officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery.

Marian was born Oct. 26, 1918, in Leola, S.D., the daughter of J.C. and Lillian (Orr) Dickinson. The family moved to Mason City where Marian graduated from Mason City High School in 1937. She graduated from Mason City Junior College in 1939, then attended and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls. Marian taught school in Williams, Iowa, from 1942 to 1944. She returned to Mason City, where she began teaching home economics at Mason City High School in 1944.

Marian is survived by two uncles, Gay Orr of Spirit Lake and Orville Orr of California; cousins, Dr. John Thompson of Iowa City, Dr. Barton Thompson of Iowa City, Shelly Thompson of Des Moines, Merle Dickinson of Waterloo, Larry Orr of Waterloo; cousin-in-law, Winifred Dickinson of Mason City; and several other cousins and family members.

She was preceded in death by her parents.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2018

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