Mae Ann Ostermeyer Meredith

OSTERMEYER, MEREDITH

Posted By: Marthann (email)
Date: 9/23/2006 at 16:31:18

Mae Ann (Ostermeyer) Meredith August 26, 1926 - Sept. 9, 2006
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Denison Bulletin/Review

Denison IA 51442

09/19/2006

Mae Ann Meredith died Saturday, Sept. 9, 2006, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll at the age of eighty.

Mae Ann Meredith was born in Manning on August 26, 1926 to John and Anna (Anthony) Ostermeyer. Later she moved with her parents to Westside, Iowa.

In 1940, Mae contracted polio and lived in a wheelchair most of her life.

She attended Westside School and graduated second in her class in 1945. She worked in her father's mechanics shop as a bookkeeper.

She married William Meredith on June 29, 1960, at the family farm north of Westside where they resided until February of this year, when they moved to the Manilla Manor.

Mae was a loving wife. She enjoyed reading, challenging word games, handiwork, watching the cows in the pasture and trains passing.

She collected antiques for over fifty years and ran Windmill Antiques out of her home. In the seventies, Mae and Bill were instrumental in signing up hundreds for Rural Water.

Mae is survived by her husband Bill and cousins, and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. On Tuesday, September 12, 2006 at United Church in Westside, Iowa.

Pastor Virginia Stiles officiated the service and grave side rites held at Hayes Township Cemetery in Westside.

Organist Janine Kock provided the organ accompaniment for congregational hymns "Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me" and "Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound."

Those serving as pallbearers were: John Wolterman, Jim Wolterman, Clint Von Glan, Ryan Wolterman, Randy Anthony, and Allen Stribe.

The family invited everyone in attendance to join them in fellowship and lunch served by the United Church Women.

The Huebner Funeral Home in Westside was in charge of the arrangements.