Arbogast, Margaret Clarine Kearns (1909-1999)

ARBOGAST, KEARNS, BUTLER, TAPPER, PELZ, HAKES, STRAWHACKER, ELLSON, MAKOL, BOWMAN, DAVIS, MITCHELL, CURRIE, GOLOCKSON, HOFFMAN, BRINKMAN

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:02

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Wednesday, April 21, 1999

Margaret C. Arbogast, 90, Webster City, died Monday, April 19, 1999 at the Southfield Care Center in Webster City. Private committal services will be held prior to the 1:30 p.m. memorial service at the First Baptist Church with Rev. Marshall Hoffmann officiating. Visitation will be at the Foster Funeral Home from Wednesday noon to 9 p.m. Thursday and until 10:15 a.m. Friday. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday.

Margaret Clarine Kearns, daughter of Ada E. Butler and Civil War Veteran John V. Kearns was born April 1, 1909 at Webster City. She was educated in the Webster City Schools, graduating in 1926 from Lincoln High School. She was a member of the first Webster City Junior College class and taught one year in the Poplar Grove rural school. On June 6, 1928 she married Lyle R. Arbogast at Webster City. She, her husband and his brother Ronald, owned and operated the Seneca Market in Webster City. She also had worked at Hamilton County Social Services and was bookkeeper at Park Electric and Nissen's, retiring in 1973. She was preceded in death by her husband on April 12, 1978. She had resided at Southfield Care Center since October, 1994.

Survivors are daughters Anne Tapper of Webster City, Jean Pelz of Tucson, AZ., son and daughter-in-law, Rev. Tom and Wilma Arbogast of Spril {Spring?} Hill, KS., grandchildren Nancy Hakes, Scott Tapper, Mary Ann Strawhacker, Kristine Ellson, Debra Makol, Rebecca Bowman, Stephanie Arbogast, Kimberly Davis and David Arbogast; 13 great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents, son-in-law Weldon Tapper, brother Tom Kearns, sisters Luella Mitchell, Mary Currie and Sara Golockson, half brothers, John, Archibald, Charles and William Kearns and half sisters Clara Hoffman and Flo Brinkman.

She was a member of First Baptist Church, a long time Sunday school teacher, a circle member, deaconess, former member of the Webster City senior citizens, and the last surviving member of the Daughters of the Union Veterans. Memorials may be directed to First Baptist Church.