Ethie Mae Cilek, 1929-2002

CILEK, BROWN, STUDT

Posted By: Lori Clark (email)
Date: 12/9/2002 at 08:43:30

Gay & Ciha Funeral & Cremation Service– Iowa City – (319) 338-1132
2720 Muscatine Avenue, Iowa City, Iowa 52240

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Cedar Rapids Gazette-Paid

Solon Dateline:

Ethie Mae Brown Cilek, age 73 or rural Solon died Sunday, December 8, 2002 at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held at 7pm Tuesday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City with the Reverend Richard Marsceau of the Northridge Baptist Church in Cedar Rapids officiating. Burial will be at Oakland Cemetery in Solon at a later date. Visitation will be from 5 to 7pm Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial donations can be made to the charity of the donor’s choice in Mrs. Cilek’s memory.

Ethie Mae was born September 30, 1929 in Solon, the daughter of Vernon A. and Edith M. (Studt) Brown. She graduated from Iowa City City High School in 1947 and from Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Iowa City in 1951. On November 22, 1952, she married Frank Cilek in Cedar Rapids; the couple just recently celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. She has worked as a registered nurse at both Mercy Hospital in Iowa City and St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, along with farming with her husband.

Her family includes her husband, Frank; sister-in-law and her husband, Betty and Eugene Shriekel of Lisbon and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a sister, Betty Krob, and a brother, Raymond Studt.

Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service of Iowa city is caring for Ethie’s family and her services.