Mamie Fayteen Henrichs Reed (1908 – 2002)
HENRICHS, REED, FOLKERTS, SANDERSON, GARNER, DEVOL, HART, DORLAND, PAGE, EDGINGTON, JONES
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Date: 7/27/2010 at 19:38:43
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Mamie Fayteen Reed
Mamie Fayteen Reed, daughter of Albert John and Anna Janssen Folkerts Henrichs, was born Oct. 27, 1908, in Clarke County and died Jan. 25, 2002, at the Clarke County Hospital in Osceola. She was 93.
She received her education in the rural schools in the Jamison area and graduated from New Virginia High School. She married Guy Madison Reed on Sept. 2, 1928, at the Methodist parsonage in New Virginia. The couple became the parents of five children. Mr. and Mrs. Reed celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary in September 1998.
Mrs. Reed was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and homemaker. Her mother died when Mrs. Reed was a teenager and that left her to be the caregiver of her younger brothers and sisters. After Mr. and Mrs. Reed married their home was always open for family and friends.
She lived all of her life in Clarke County and was member of the Cheery Pal Neighborhood Club, 4-H Club leader, long time member of the United Methodist Church in Osceola, United Methodist Women and an honorary member of Esther Women’s Circle.
Mrs. Reed had a large vegetable garden until the last few years. She loved caring for her children and grandchildren. In the winter when there was no gardening she enjoyed quilting and piecework. She made a quilt for each of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Ivan, Everett and Harold Henrichs; two sisters, Doris Henrichs and Elsie Sanderson; two sisters-in-law, Edith Garner and Ethel Devol and a son-in-law, Larry Hart.
Mrs. Reed is survived by her husband of 73 years; three sons, Darald Reed and his wife, Bettie Reed, of Winchester, Va., Marion Reed and his wife, Betty Reed, of Fallbrook, Calif. and Ronald Reed and his wife, Linda Reed, of Osceola; two daughters, Marilyn Dorland and her husband, Merrill Dorland and Shirley Hart all of Osceola; 11 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; a great-great-grandchild; a brother Floyd Henrichs and his wife, Irene Henrichs, of Osceola; a sister-in-law, Jean Henrichs of Osceola; other relatives and a host of friends.
Funeral services for Mrs. Reed were Jan. 28 at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola, the Rev. James Louk officiating. Pennie Gonseth, organist, accompanied soloist, Ronda Lowry, as she sang Amazing Grace and My Mother’s Hands.
Casket bearers were Cole Page, Cass Page, Parker Edgington, Kevin Dorland, Gary Reed and Merlyn “Bud” Jones. Interment was in Maple Hill Cemetery at Osceola.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Clarke County Chapter of the American Cancer Society.
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