Doris Mae (Leach) Schirm (2003)

BASS, KINGSBURY, LEACH, MCKENZIE, NEWMAN, PATTON, SCHIRM, STURTZ, TRACY, TYER

Posted By: Treva Patterson
Date: 3/4/2006 at 18:01:41

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 10, 2003

Doris Schirm, Winterset

Doris Mae Schirm, 81, of Winterset died of a heart ailment Sept. 7, 2003 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines.

A memorial service was held at 10:30 a.m. today (Wednesday, Sept. 10) at the First United Methodist Church in Winterset with Pastor Robert Barrick officiating. Burial of the cremains was at Winterset Cemetery.

Doris Schirm was born Oct. 20, 1921 in Madison County to William Ray and Ida Myrl (Tyer) Leach. In March of 1964, she married Lloyd Schirm in Nashua.

Doris, a lifetime resident of the Winterset area, had been a bookkeeper for Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Winterset and had sold Avon in the area for several years. She also had taught school and worked for a local telephone company.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Susanna Circle, Madison County Republican Women, I.O.O.F. and Rebekah Lodge of Macksburg and Winterset, and TOPS. She enjoyed gardening, embroidering, her friends and family and her passion for selling Avon.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a stepson, Rick Schirm.

She is survived by her husband, Lloyd Schirm of Winterset; three daughters, Sharon Kingsbury of Chariton, Bonnie Newman and husband Ted of Glen Ellen, Calif., and Barbara McKinzie of Urbandale; a sister Phyllis Sturtz of Winterset; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; three stepchildren, Fonda Bass and husband Dick of Winterset, Pat Tracy and husband George of Ankeny and Connie Patton of Longmont, Colo.; six step-grandchildren; and seven step great-granchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Diabetes Foundation in care of the family.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Collins Oak Park Chapel in Winterset.

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