Mary Conrad (2003)

CONRAD, CORNWELL, HOHENSEE, WOLFE, WHIRLOW, WEEKS

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 12/3/2006 at 11:15:40

Des Moines Register, January 3, 2003
Des Moines, Iowa

MARY CONRAD
Melcher-Dallas

Mary Conrad, 80, of Melcher-Dallas died of a heart ailment Thursday at home. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Melcher-Dallas, of which she was a member. Burial will be at the church cemetery.

Mrs. Conrad was born in Beverly, Mass., and had lived in the Melcher-Dallas area 48 years. She was a homemaker and a member of her church’s alter and rosary society. She had been a volunteer with Central Iowa Hospice and the Democratic party.

She is survived by her husband, Duane “Buck”, a daughter, Becky Conrad of Winterset; three sons, Kelly of Ottumwa, Jim of Papillion, Neb, and Chris of Centerville; five sisters, Peggy Cornwell of Phoenix, Phyllis Hohensee of Fort Dodge, Irene Wolfe of Pocahontas, Helen Whirlow of Drury, Mo., and Norma Weeks of Knoxville, and nine grandchildren.

Friends may call after 11 a.m. today at Pierschbacher Funeral Home in Melcher-Dallas, where the family will be present from 6 to 8 p.m. and where a rosary will be recited at 6:30 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Central Iowa Hospice or her church’s building fund.