PLUNKETT, Mary Viola 1915-2005

PLUNKETT, DYNES, MARR, WETTER

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 2/24/2012 at 16:06:21

Mary Viola Plunkett – September 24, 1915 – October 6, 2005

Mary Viola Plunkett, age 90, of Osage, died Thursday, October 6, 2005, at the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage. Mass of Christian Burial was held Saturday, Oct. 8, 2005, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage with Rev. John Moser officiating. Interment was in St. Peter's Cemetery in New Haven with Military Honors by Osage American Legion Post 278.

Viola was born Sept. 24, 1915, in rural New Haven to Paul and Ellen (Dynes) Plunkett. She graduated from Riceville High School in 1932. She taught in rural schools in Mitchell County. During World War II she worked at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit, Mich., until she enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps.

She received her basic training at Paris Island, S.C. Her permanent duty station where she was an aviation mechanic was Norman, Okla.

After World War II, Viola resumed teaching and continued her education, receiving a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa in 1961. Viola taught in Douglas Township, Burr Oak, Mitchell, and St. Ansgar before retiring from Waterloo in 1977.

She was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage. She was an avid reader. She spent many winters in San Diego, Calif. with her brother Paul. Viola moved back to Osage from Waterloo and lived the last two years of her life at the Faith Lutheran Home.

She is survived by two sisters, Verna Marr of Rock Island, Ill. and Patricia Wetter (Marvin) of Floyd; a sister-in-law, Sylvia Plunkett of Blooming Prairie, Minn.; and many nieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her brothers, Paul and Frank; and her sisters, Velva Humphrey and Darlene Quinn.

Arrangements made by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home 641-732-3706.

Posted Oct. 12, 2005