Muriel E. Parsley 1902-2000

PARSLEY MASHECK BURGESS

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 2/15/2010 at 22:14:13

Sioux City Journal
25 January 2000

Onawa, Iowa—Muriel E. Parsley, 97, of Onawa, formerly of Sloan, Iowa, died Sunday, January 23, 2000, at Elmwood Care Centre in Onawa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Pearson Funeral Chapel in Onawa, with the Rev. Donald R. Ludwick officiating. Burial will be in Willow Township Cemetery, Holly Springs, Iowa. Visitation will be one hour prior to the services Wednesday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Parsley was born October 3, 1902, in Platte, S.D., the daughter of Myron Edward and Anna Belle (Masheck) Burgess. She moved with her family to the Hornick, Iowa area as a child. She graduated from Hornick High School.

During high school, she assisted her father as a railroad telegrapher. She had also been an assistant mail carrier and railroad depot agent.

She married Walter C Parsley on December 24, 1921 in Sioux City. The couple lived in Sloan, Hornick and Holly Springs area until moving to a farm near Sloan in 1937. They moved into Sloan in 1963. He died Feb. 3, 1972 in Sloan. She entered Elmwood Care Center in 1993.

She enjoyed art, writing and gardening.

Survivors include a son, Walter K. of North Sioux City; three daughters, Doris Frame of Lodi, California, Marjorie Robley of Salix, Iowa and Judy and her husband, Dan Jones of Turin, Iowa; 22 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Shirley Stevens; a brother, Roy Burgess; two sisters, Itha Freshney and Eileen Burgess; two grandchildren, Herbert Robley Jr. and Donald Robley; and a great-grandchild.