Freeda Marie (Kessler) Stanley (2011)

BROWN, EPPERSON, FLYNN, KESSLER, KEPHART, SONES, STANLEY

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 10/6/2011 at 16:43:01

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

MARIE STANLEY, Winterset

Freeda “Marie” Stanley, 90, of Winterset died Monday, Oct. 3, at Winterset Care Center South at the age of 90.

A funeral service will be held Friday, Oct. 7, at Winterset Foursquare Gospel Church.

Visitation will be Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. at the church, with family receiving friends from 6*8 p.m. Burial will be in the Winterset Cemetery. Memorials may be directed to the Winterset Foursquare Gospel Church, or the Winterset Chaplaincy Board.

Freeda “Marie” Kessler Stanley was born April 17, 1921 in Lacona, Iowa, to Rev. Reed and Freeda Sones Kessler. Because her father was a minister, Marie lived in various towns in Iowa, Colorado and Wyoming growing up. She graduated from Earlham High School in 1939, and attended Simpson College. She taught country school in Lee Township. Marie married Glen Stanley on Oct. 19, 1940, and spent her life as a farm wife and mother. She also worked as an aide for years at Winterset Care Center North and later Madison County Memorial Hospital. She was a former member of the Worthington United Methodist Church and most recently the Winterset Foursquare Gospel Church.

Marie was preceded in death by her brother, Leo Kessler; son-in-law, Don Flynn; and husband, Glen.

She is survived by her brother, Galen Kessler of Pleasant Hill; sisters-in-law, Donna Kessler of Audubon and Hazel Stanley of Winterset; her children, Mary Jane Flynn of Winterset; Ray Stanley of Spearfish, SD; Martha Brown of Greenville, SC; Elaine Kephart of New Virginia and Ann Epperson of Winterset; 17 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Arrangements are being handled by McCalley-Collins Funeral Home.

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