Marvel, Dorothy Layne Gilmore (1904-1966)

MARVEL, GILMORE, LAYNE, GORDON, MCLAUGHLIN, HILLYER, KRASS

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Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:00

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Monday, November 14, 1966

Mrs. Marvel Died Saturday In Florida

Mrs. Kenneth (Dorothy) Marvel, 62, former Webster City resident, died Saturday afternoon at the University of Florida Medical Center, Gainesville, Fla. She had been making her home in Florida since 1960.

Memorial services were held this morning at the St. Richard's Episcopal church in Winter Park, Fla., with Father H.H. Buchanan officiating. The body will be brought to Webster City where services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Foster Funeral home with Father Clifford W. Atkinson officiating. Burial will be made in Graceland cemetery.

Dorothy Layne Gilmore, daughter of Oscar L. and Effie Layne Gilmore, was born July 7, 1904, on a farm near Webster City and was reared and educated in the Webster City community.

She was united in marriage June 6, 1921 to Kenneth H. Marvel. Mr. and Mrs. Marvel made their home at Grand Junction, Colo., until 1922 at which time they returned to Iowa, locating on the Marvel farm six miles north of Blairsburg in Wright county.

In 1935, Mr. and Mrs. Marvel and family moved into Webster City, where Mr. Marvel operated the Marvel Sales Pavilion on West Second St.

She was preceded in death by her husband March 22, 1951; by one son, Donald, who died in 1932; by her parents and one brother, Reginald Gilmore.

She is survived by one son and one daughter, John W. (Jack) Marvel, Webster City, and Mrs. William R. (Peggy) Gordon, Maitland, Fla.; six grandchildren, Mrs. Thomas (Judith) McLaughlin, Coralville, Iowa, John E. Marvel, Sioux City, James J. Marvel, attending State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Kenneth Marvel Gordon, Pamela Lorene Gordon and William Robert Gordon, all of Maitland; one great-grandson, John W. Marvel, II; one brother and two sisters, M.L. Gilmore, Webster City, Mrs. Dale (Geraldine) Hillyer, Webster City and Mrs. Helen Krass, Amityville, Long Island, N.Y., and several nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Marvel was a member of St. Richard's Episcopal church at Winter Park. She was a member of the Tri-T club.