Dick, M. Maxine Carlson (1919-2002)

DICK, CARLSON, WESTRUM, OSTREM, ALLEN, SPANNAUS, HITCHCOCK, COTTINGTON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/29/2016 at 11:22:50

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Tuesday, February 26, 2002

Maxine Dick, 82, Webster City, a former Stanhope area resident, died February 24, 2002 at the Hamilton Hospital in Webster City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Stanhope Parish with Pastor Suzie Moore officiating. Burial will be in the Saratoga Cemetery, south of Webster City. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home from 5-9 p.m. Tuesday and at the church prior to the service.

M. Maxine Carlson, daughter of Theodore and Jennie Westrum Carlson, was born Oct. 11, 1919, on a farm in Marion Township, west of Stanhope. She attended Stanhope Consolidated School, graduating in 1937. She graduated from Comptometer Business School in Des Moines and worked for Standard Oil Company in Mason City for three years. On April 13, 1941, she married Mervyn Kent Dick at the Carlson home, west of Stanhope. Following Mervyn's discharge from the U.S. Army, the couple started farming northwest of Stanhope. They retired from farming in December 1982 and continued to live on the farm. She moved to Crestview Apartments in 1999.

Maxine is survived by her husband, Mervyn, daughters and sons-in-law, Linda and Steve Ostrem of Stratford, Jennifer and Tom Allen of Altoona, son and daughter-in-law, Ramon and Doris Dick of Villisca, grandchildren, Molly Spannaus of Ames, Jared Ostrem of Cannon Falls, Minn., Daniel Ostrem, Stratford, Crystal Ostrem of Ames, Kent Allen of Altoona, Audrey Hitchcock of Altoona, Chad Allen of Ames, Edouard Dick of Amana, Aaron Dick of Burnsville, Minn.; great-grandsons, Justice and Lincoln Hitchcock; brother, Wendell Carlson, Boone, several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Miriam Spannaus in 1987; son-in-law Rollie Spannaus in 1995; granddaughter-in-law, Merry Dick in 1999; brothers, Ransom and Chester Carlson; sister, Arlene Cottington.

Mrs. Dick was a member of the Stanhope Parish where she had been a Sunday school teacher and choir director for many years. She was past president of the Christian Women's Fellowship and a longtime 4-H leader in Hamilton County.