MATTHEWS, Mary

MATHEWS, SHAW

Posted By: Nancy (email)
Date: 9/9/2003 at 13:26:25

August 7, 2003 Morning Sun News Herald. (note two t’s in title and only one t in remainder of the name Matthews). I am not related and have no further information.
Mary Matthews

Mary Jean Mathews, 85, of Mount Pleasant, formerly of Morning Sun, died Monday, August 4, 2003, at Arbor Court in Mount Pleasant.

Born July 22, 1918, in Wapello, she was the daughter of Harvey and Maude Ruby Shaw. She graduated from Morning Sun High School in 1936.

She worked in the office at Schramms in Burlington and then the telephone office for Iowa Illinois Telephone Company in New London.

In 1959 she married Hugh Mathews in Cedar Rapids. He died in 1981.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Morning Sun. She loved antiques and shopping.

Survivors include one sister, Dorothy Caris of Mount Pleasant; two nephews, Bob and Roberta Caris of Iowa City and David Caris of San Antonio, Texas; a niece Jean and Scott Osland of Iowa City; six grandnieces and nephews; one step-daughter, Margaret Long of Knoxville; a step-son, John Mathews of Mount Union; and step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.

Open visitation was Wednesday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home in Wapello.

The family will meet with friends at 9:30 until the funeral service at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. The Rev. Harlan W. Winter will officiate. Music will be provided by Kathleen Hagele as the organist, along with a selected recording of ‘Just a Closer Walk With Thee’. The pallbearers will include Bob Caris, Roberta Caris, Emily Caris, Jean Osland and Don Long. Burial will follow at Wapello Cemetery.

A memorial fund has been established for the benefit of the United Methodist Church in Morning Sun.