Nettlow, Marie S. 1912-1990

NETTLOW, LA FAVRE, PENNOCK, MARKER, SAMSON, RECTOR, VAN DER VEER

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Date: 7/15/2007 at 21:05:35

Marie S. Nettlow

Funeral services for Marie Samson Nettlow, 78, of 217 E.2nd St. S. and Mesa, Ariz., will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, November 16 at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Scott Coulter, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church, will conduct services. Buiral will be in Graceland Cemetery in Pella.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Wednesday. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Memorials to the United Presbyterian Church in Newton will be accepted.

She died Sunday afternoon at the Mesa Lutheran Hospital of cancer.

Survivors are a step-son, Dennis LaFavre of Commerce City, Colo.; two daughters, Joanne (Mrs. Wayne) Pennock of Newton and Beverly (Mrs. James A.) Marker of Langley Air Force Base, Va.; seven grandchildren; three step-grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and three step-great-granchdildren.

Also surviving are two brothers, Jacob Samson and Conrad Samson, both of Prairie City, and two sisters, Joan (Mrs. Dennis) LaFavre of Commerce City, Colo.

She was preceded in death by her parents, first husband, Eugene F. Rector, second husband, Charles LaFarve, third husband, Oliver Nettlow, a gradndaughter, a great-grandson and a brother, Andrew Samson.

Mrs. Nettlow had been employed at the Maytag Co., had been a supervisor at the Vernon Co. and for 22 years was employed by the Federal Civil Service, prior to retiring in 1972.

She was a member of the Newton United Presbyterian Church, the Cloverleaf Class, Rebekah Lodge 237 of Newton, National Association for Retired Federal Employees (NARFE) and American Association of Retired person (AARP).

The daughter of Gerrit and Johanna Van Der Veer Samson, she was born April 23, 1912 near Tracy, was a 1930 graduate of Newton Community High School and attended the American Institute of Business in Des Moines and George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

She was married to Eugene F. Rector in 1933 in Newton, Charles M. LaFavre in 1946 in Newton and Oliver P. Nettlow in 1980 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

Mrs. Nettlow also had lived in North Dakota and the Denver, Colo., area. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, November 1990