Myrtle Gertrude (Lorentz) Silliman (1999)

BELL, CRANDALL, LORENTZ, NEWTON, ROBINSON, SILLIMAN, WILLIAMS

Posted By: Ida Morse
Date: 2/4/2006 at 21:32:31

Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, September 1, 1999
Winterset, Iowa

Myrtle G. Silliman, Urbandale

Myrtle Gertrude Silliman, 94, died of congestive heart failure Aug. 30, 1999, at USA Care Center in Urbandale.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, at the First United Methodist Church in Winterset with Pastor Robert Barrick officiating. Burial will be at Peru Cemetery. Visitation will be held Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. at Collins Funeral Home in Winterset with the family present from 6-8-p.m.

Myrtle Silliman was born Aug. 1, 1905, in Madison County to George and Hattie (Williams) Lorentz. She married Alonzo Silliman on Feb. 16, 1927, in Des Moines. A homemaker, she spent most of her lifetime in Madison County. Myrtle was a member of the First Methodist Church in Winterset.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, a brother and a sister.

She is survived by two sons, Charles Silliman (wife Dianne) of Seffner, Fla., and Ron Silliman (wife Treasa) of Carlisle; three daughters, Mae Newton of Des Moines, Jo Bell of Omaha, Neb., and Phyllis Crandall (husband Ward) of Thermopolis, Wyo.; a daughter-in-law, Ellen Silliman of Winterset; one sister, Mildred Robinson of Winterset; 18 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the First United Methodist Church in Winterset.

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