Marion Woltman Young, 1918-1985

YOUNG, WOLTMAN, EKREN, ARENDS, KRAFT

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 07:02:07

Services for Mrs. Merlin (Marion) Young, 66, will be held Wednesday at the United Methodist Church with the Reverend Balm and the Reverend Dan Swanson officiated. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. She died Sunday, June 16, 1985 at Holy Family Hospital.

Friends may call at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home 3-9 p.m. Tuesday.

Marion Maxine Woltman was born November 13, 1918 in Cherokee, the daughter of Herman and Dolly Evangeline (Armstead) Woltman. She attended Quimby School and was a graduate of Quimby High School. On August 24, 1939 she was united in marriage with Merlin Young at the Methodist Parsonage at Cherokee. She lived in Cherokee County where she worked at the State Hospital in Cherokee. The family moved to Estherville in 1965 and she has worked at Rosewood Manor and the Good Samaritan Center here. She was a member of the United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Merlin, Estherville; two sons: James and Steven Young, Estherville; three daughters: Janet Ekren and Mrs. Rod (Jill) Arends, Estherville and Mrs. Woodrow (Kathy) Kraft, Lakefield, Minnesota; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; one brother Billy Woltman, Cherokee and one sister Dorothy Snodgrass. Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one brother and one sister.

Contributed by: Lynette Edsall. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; June 18, 1985.