Louise Alley Marrs

MARRS, ALLEY, KERR, MALY, BEAUMONT

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 4/3/2006 at 15:52:45

Winterset Madisonian
November 29, 2000

Louise A. Marrs, Manson

Louise A. Marrs, 86, died of a heart ailment Nov. 25, 2000, at Manson Good Samaritan Center.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. today (Wednesday, Nov. 29) at the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset with the Rev. David Feltman and Dr. Mary Pope officiating. Burial was at Greenfield Cemetery.

Louise Marrs was born July 13, 1914, to John Ray and Mary Jane (Kerr) Alley of Greenfield. A graduate of Greenfield High School, she married Ulon H. Marrs on Nov. 19, 1933 in Greenfield. She had also resided in Winterset, Osceola, Cheyenne, Wyo., Ottumwa and Fort Dodge before moving to Manson in 1994. A homemaker, Louise had been a member of the Tri L Club, Madison County Covered Bridge Festival Committee, both in Winterset, and was a founding member of the Civic Newcomers in Fort Dodge. She also was a member of the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset where she had been an elder and Sunday school teacher and advisor to the Senior High and Junior College Westminister Fellowship.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother and two sisters.

She is survived by three sons, John Marrs and David Marrs, both of Fort Dodge, and Stephen Marrs of Chicota, Texas; a daughter, Mary Maly of Manson; a sister, Mary Beaumont of Superior, Neb.; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Collins Funeral Home in Winterset.