Doud, Marilyn (Biggs- Daugherty) 1922-2003

DOUD, BIGGS, DAUGHERTY, WEAVER, BRIGGS, BEGGS, SHELLY, KIRCHNER

Posted By: Debbie Nash (email)
Date: 11/6/2003 at 22:12:46

Marilyn Daugherty Doud
November 06, 2003

Marilyn Daugherty Doud, 80, of Keosauqua died at 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2003, at Van Buren County Good Samaritan Center in Keosauqua.

The funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Keosauqua United Methodist Church, with the Rev. ellis andrews officiating. Burial will be in Harness Cemetery in Mount Sterling.

Open visitation began at 2 p.m. today at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, with the family present from 7-8 p.m.

Memorials to Van Buren School Educational Foundation may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at 28668 Laurel Road, Mount Sterling 52573.

Mrs. Doud was born Dec. 10, 1922, at Azen, Mo., the daughter of Robert and Martha Russell Biggs. She married Richard Daugherty April 10, 1942. He died June 12, 1971. She married Herbert Doud September 1978. He died Dec. 21, 1980.

Mrs. Doud grew up in Scotland County, Mo., graduated from Granger, Mo., High School, attended Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville, taught in Scotland county rural schools, in Cantril and did substitute teaching. She was a farm homemaker in the Mount Sterling area and was dietary department supervisor at Van Buren Good Samaritan Center for 17 years, retiring in 1987.

She had been a member of the former Mount Sterling United Methodist Church and United Methodist Women and was currently a member of Keosauqua United Methodist Church.

Survivors include three sons, Donald Daugherty and wife Sheila of Washington, Iowa, Clifford Daugherty and wife Kathy of Eldora and Ted Daugherty and wife Dixie of Mount Sterling; one foster daughter, Penny Weaver of Hollywood, Ala.; 11 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three brothers, Joedd Biggs of Platte City, Mo., Ben Briggs of Birmingham and Tipton Beggs of Omaha, Neb.; and one sister, Pat Shelly of Memphis, Mo.

Besides her husbands, she was preceded in death by her parents, a special friend, Kenneth Kirchner and one granddaughter.

Courtesy of the Fairfield Daily Ledger Inc. 2003