Marguerite Johnson Morey
MOREY, JOHNSON, SCHALLER, LIEHSEL, BADGER, VAN SICKLE
Posted By: Sarah Fletcher (email)
Date: 8/31/2021 at 07:21:15
Marguerite Johnson Morey, age 100, passed away on Saturday, August 14, 2021, at Briarwood Health Care Center in Iowa City, Iowa.
Graveside Committal Services will be at 11 AM, Saturday, August 21, 2021 at Oakwood Cemetery in Monticello, Iowa. Rev. Terry Purvis-Smith will officiate. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City or a local charity of choice.
Marguerite was born in Earlville, Iowa, to Dale F and Ruth (Schaller) Johnson. She graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1939 and from Cedar Rapids Business College in 1945.
She married Dean A. Morey of Monticello, Iowa, at the home of her parents in Mount Vernon in 1944. Her husband, Chaplain (COL) Morey, was a career US Army officer. She and their two daughters accompanied him on his assignments through the years, including six years in Germany, three years on Okinawa, various places in California, and Missouri.
She served as a Gray Lady Red Cross volunteer at Army posts overseas and in California and was also active in Girl Scouts on Okinawa and in San Francisco. She received the Grand Cross of Color from the Order of the Rainbow for Girls in San Pedro, California. She was an avid traveler and reader, and her wonderful needlework was admired by all.
Upon Dean’s retirement from the Army in 1972, Marguerite and Dean moved to Iowa City. Marguerite was a member of First Presbyterian Church of Iowa City and of the Mercy Guild of Mercy Hospital.
She was preceded in death by her parents in 1976, her husband in 1997, her brother and sister-in-law Eldon and Dorothy Johnson, her son-in-law Gerhard Liehsel, and her niece Sara Johnson.
She is survived by her daughters Mardean Badger and her husband Ellison, and Martha Liehsel; her grandson Richard Badger; niece Lisa Van Sickle and her husband Harvey.
Online condolences at www.lensingfuneral.com
IN AN INSTANT
Death came on me, all unexpected.
There beside the path I walked, He lay in wait,
And seized me all at once,
Carrying me off. I was not ready for Him.
But it was Life even more unexpected
than the intruder Death
That surprised me that same day. Death had
his moment, wrenching me away
from all my friends, the ways, the weal
and woe of the world I knew so well.
But it was Life that overwhelmed me more
than Death.I had always hoped, in faith, that Life was
there, beyond the threatening darkness,
but when it came, the light of this new
world blinded me at first,
Until my senses could take in the change.All of time climaxed in a moment,
the sum of all experiences of pain and joy,
eclipsed by what I had become,
and where I had arrived,
And who had welcomed me to this fair land
where now I stood.“I spoke of other mansions once, you know”
He said.
“And here you are. But come, there’s much
to see and do,
you’ve a new world to explore.”
And so I walked with him.- Dean A. Morey
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