Mary Marjorie Molle 1916-2003

MOLLE, REDDIN, GAHM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/24/2008 at 22:45:42

Sioux City Journal
14 March 2003

Mary Marjorie Molle
BLENCOE, Iowa -- Mary Marjorie Molle, 87, of Blencoe passed away Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at her residence.

Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at Blencoe United Church of Christ, with the Rev. John Noer officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be 6 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, Iowa.

Marge was born Jan. 10, 1916, in Little Sioux, Iowa, the daughter of Charles and Kathryn (Reddin) Gahm. She was raised in Little Sioux and graduated from Little Sioux High School in 1933.

She married Joseph "Tone" Molle on Jan. 10, 1936, in Missouri Valley, Iowa. The couple farmed near Blencoe. Tone passed away Feb. 25, 1996, in Whiting, Iowa.

Her special love was her family and she was very active in the Blencoe community. She was a member of Blencoe United Church of Christ, the Women's Fellowship, Chat Sew Club and a pinochle club. She was an avid bird watcher, pin collector, loved to write poems and loved traveling with Tone.

Survivors include two daughters and their husbands, Joanne and Roger Heisterkamp of Blencoe and Judy and Thomas Kane of Palm Beach Garden, Fla.; a sister, Edna Mae Johnson of Little Sioux; her grandchildren, Rhonda and Wayne MacClure of Hornick, Iowa, Roland and Becky Heisterkamp of Onawa, Iowa, Barbara Heisterkamp and Fred Petty of Omaha, Stanley Heisterkamp of Omaha, John and Lina Heisterkamp of Blencoe, Rodney and Angie Heisterkamp of Omaha, Doug and Jodi Heisterkamp of Stillwater, Okla., Jennifer and David Jackson of Baynard, Neb., Cody Molle of Laramie, Wyo., Clayton and Cynthia Molle of Mission Viejo, Calif., Teri and Gerard Cosgrove of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Tom and Darla Kane of Aurora, Colo., Linda Kane of Jupiter, Fla., and Diane Kane of Juno Beach, Fla., her great-grandchildren, Jeremy, Rachel and Mary MacClure, Joe and Bill Heisterkamp, Alex Petty, Liann Heisterkamp, Nicholas and Elizabeth Allen, Justin and Dustin Jackson, Natasha Molle, Grace, Conor and

Lisanne Cosgrove, and Frank, Alena and John Kane; and nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends.

In addition to her husband, she was also preceded in death by her parents; a son, Charles Molle; five brothers, Howard, Kenneth, Raymond, Lloyd and Edward Gahm; and two sisters, Valeria Nuzum and Rubye Hornbeck.