Eva Marie (Stowell) Preston (2003)

PRESTON, RYAN, THOMPSON, STOWELL, CRILL, MOREY, NELSON, DAMEWOOD, MARTIN, TOWNSEND

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 7/7/2007 at 19:41:11

Winterset Madisonian-Winterset, Iowa
September 24, 2003

Eva Preston, Winterset

Eva Marie Ryan Preston, 95, of Winterset died on congestive heart failure Sept. 9, 2003 at the home of her daughter.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Sept. 13, at Prescott United Church inn Prescott, Iowa with Pastor Jeanne Groom officiating. Inurement will be at a later date at Evergreen Cemetery in Prescott.

Eva Preston was born Feb. 1, 1908 in Guss, Iowa to Charles A. and Lucy B. (Thompson) Stowell. She married Daniel Ryan in 1930 and lived in southwest Iowa. After the death of her first husband, she married W. Wayne Preston of Prescott, where Eva operated a beauty salon. She moved to Winterset in 2002.

She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, four brothers, and three sisters.

She is survived by daughters, Betty Jo Crill (husband Gary) of Littlerock, Calif., Joye June Morey of Highlands Ranch, Colo., Patricia Nelson (husband Jim) of Winterset; step-daughters Ellen Damewood (husband Harold) of Silver City, Ia., Lora Martin (husband Frank) of Forest City, Ia.; step-sons, Mike Preston (wife Anita) of Ankeny, Terry Preston (wife Dottie) of Corning; brother Dean Stowell of St. Augustine, Fla.; sister Evelyn Townsend of Creston; 17 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

Coen, Beaty, Pearson Funeral Home in Creston handled the arrangements.