Bulah Bell "Blue" (Bond) Dillinger (2009)
ARMSTRONG, BOND, DILLINGER, FREASE, KIRK, MACUMBER, OGLESBEE
Posted By: Shirley Keating
Date: 10/15/2009 at 22:29:53
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 14, 2009BULAH DILLINGER, PERU
Bulah “Blue” Bell Dillinger, 77, of Peru died Oct. 12, 2009, of complications of a stroke at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Peru United Methodist Church. Visitation will be from 1–8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset, where the family will be present to receive friends from 6–8 p.m. Burial will be at Peru Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be directed to the Peru United Methodist Church.
Bulah Dillinger was born April 20, 1932, in rural Earlham, Madison County, to Stephen and Eva (Macumber) Bond. She attended school in Earlham, Greenfield and Winterset, where she graduated in 1950. Her marriage to Harold E. Dillinger took place Dec. 17, 1950, at the Peru United Methodist Church. Blue assisted her husband in the managing of their family farm and took an active part in the farm work. Blue was a member of the Rebekah Lodge and Peru Women’s Garden Club. She also was a 4-H leader.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Viola Olgesbee and an infant sister.
She is survived by her husband, Harold, of Peru; two daughters, Kathryn Armstrong of Mediapolis and Dorothy Frease of Winterset; and four grandchildren and two stepgrandsons.
________________________Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Wednesday, October 14, 2009BULAH "BLUE" BELL DILLINGER , Peru
Bulah "Blue" Bell Dillinger, 77, died of complications of a stroke on Monday, October 12, 2009, at Madison County Health Care System in Winterset.
A visitation will be held from 1 to 8 p.m., Thursday, October 15, 2009 at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset, where the family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, October 16, 2009 at the Peru United Methodist Church in Peru. Burial will be in the Peru Cemetery near Peru. Memorial contributions may be directed to the Peru United Methodist Church.
Bulah Bell Bond was born in Madison County near Earlham, Iowa on April 20, 1932 to Stephen and Eva (Macumber) Bond. She attended school in Earlham, Greenfield and Winterset where she graduated in the class of 1950. Her marriage to Harold E. Dillinger took place on December 17, 1950 at the Peru United Methodist Church in Peru.
Blue was a devoted wife and mother and spent much of her time tending to the needs of her family while assisting her husband, Harold with working and managing their family farm. She took an active part in the farm work, driving tractor and doing whatever was needed to get things done.
She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge, the Peru Women's Garden Club, and was a 4-H leader. She loved to garden and enjoyed feeding and watching birds. She also enjoyed handiwork like crocheting and knitting. She loved to read and enjoyed wintering in Port Isabel, Texas which she and Harold did for 30 years. Most of all, Blue loved her family and time spent with them.
Blue is survived by her husband, Harold Dillinger of Peru; two daughters, Kathryn Armstrong and her husband, Gary of Mediapolis; Dorothy Frease and her husband, Kim of Winterset; four grandchildren, (Thomas, Brody and Crystal Armstrong and Travis Kirk); and two step-grandsons, (Jeremey and Chad Frease).
She was preceded in death by her parents; and two sisters, Viola Olgesbee and an infant sister.
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