Margaret Penn Crumrine Darling 1888-1975

DARLING, CRUMRINE, PENN, ALLEN, SCHAPER, CROSBY, SWIFT

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 9/19/2010 at 23:32:59

Margaret Darling’s Services Thursday
Estherville – Margaret Darling, 86, died Sunday morning at the Good Samaritan Center. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Henry Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Harvey Throop of the Estherville Presbyterian Church officiating and burial at the Oak Hill Cemetery.

She was born Oct. 20, 1888 in Graettinger to William and Elizabeth Allen Penn and educated in the rural schools. She was married to Solomon Crumrine March 16, 1910 in Estherville. After his death in 1926 [1925] she was married to John Darling May 10, 1928 in Estherville. He died in 1958.

She had taught school and she and her husband farmed east of Wallingford and near Estherville. She was a member of the Presbyterian Church, Estherville, had been active in Sunday School and UPW.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Marjorie Schaper, Maple Hill, and three grandchildren, Mrs. Ruth Crosby, Wallingford; William and Brian Schaper, Maple Hill; and one sister, Mrs. Florence Swift, Graettinger.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, two brothers and three sisters.

Friends may call at the Henry Funeral Home, Estherville, after 9 a.m. Wednesday. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, January 14, 1975)