BROLLIER, Marian Marvel

BROLLIER, COY, STANLEY, WONDERLICH

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 3/20/2010 at 12:26:07

"The Fairfield Ledger", Monday, March 15, 2010, Page 8

BROLLIER, Marian Marvel -- Marian Marvel BROLLIER, 99, formerly of Ollie, died Saturday, March 13, 2010, at Manor House Care Center in Sigourney.

A service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Ollie Baptist Church.

Visitation will be from 9:30-11 a.m. Tuesday at the church.

Memorials may be made to Ollie Baptist Church.

Fremont Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. BROLLIER was born Nov. 23, 1910, in Lehigh, the daughter of Horace M. and Sarah O. COY STANLEY. She married Clayton BROLLIER Feb. 25, 1959. He died in January 1964.

Mrs. BROLLIER attended Creston schools, attended Carnegie Tech. in Pittsburg, Pa., and received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama from University of Iowa in 1935. She taught school for seven years and then became involved in newspaper advertising and worked in Iowa, Oklahoma and California. She and her husband owned and operated a drug store in Kellogg and Walnut. Because of her husband's health, they moved to Florida, where they lived four years and operated the North End Ft. Lauderdale Shopper. They returned to Iowa and reopened the drug store in Walnut. For several years, Mrs. BROLLIER took care of her mother. In August 1969, she moved to Ollie and worked at Prairie Home Café near Pekin and later at Cook's Drug Store in Sigourney, the Keokuk County Department of Human Services and the Job Training Partnership Act in Jefferson, Keokuk and Van Buren counties. She also served as house mother for a fraternity in Ames.

Mrs. BROLLIER organized the Food Pantry and Clothes Closet in Keokuk County. She started the Over 55 Club in Ollie and helped the Ollie Community Retirement Corps. She was a member of the Ollie Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star No. 549. She was a Girl Scout leader and a member of Ollie Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school for many years. She belonged to Puppeteers of America and Prairie Guild Puppeteers of Nebraska and Iowa.

Mrs. BROLLIER enjoyed acting, being a puppeteer, clowning as Marveio the Clown and entertaining children with her clown routine. She also loved hats.

Survivors include her husband's niece, Neoma WONDERLICH of Ollie.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Horace M. STANLEY.

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