Myrna M Woodward 1923-2010

WOODWARD COX MILLER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/25/2010 at 22:32:04

Sioux City Journal
4 September 2010

MAPLETON, Iowa -- Mapleton, IA - Myrna M. Woodward, 86, of Mapleton died Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, at Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton.

Services will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at St. John's United Methodist Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Karen Garrison officiating. Visitation will be two hours prior to the service Tuesday at the church. Armstrong Funeral Home of Mapleton is in charge of the arrangements.

Myrna M. Cox Woodward was born Sept. 17, 1923, on a farm near Hornick, Iowa. She was the fifth of six children born to Claude and Dora (Miller) Cox. The family moved to a farm near Smithland, Iowa shortly after Myrna's birth, where she spent the remainder of her childhood and graduated from Smithland High School in 1940.

Myrna married Elwood Nagel. They lived in the Ticonic, Iowa area for 27 years, where Elwood farmed and Myrna was a housewife. They had three children, Lynn, Laurel and Kim. In 1970, Myrna married Melvin Woodward and lived in Mapleton the remainder of her life, where she made her home an inviting destination for her children and grandchildren.

Some of Myrna's greatest pleasures in her later years were her relationship with her grandchildren and traveling through the country.

Survivors include her daughter, Laurel (Nagel) Armstrong and her husband Gary Armstrong of Clive, Iowa; sons, Lynn E. Nagel of Portland, Ore., and Kim E. Nagel and his wife, Jeanne McDonald of Cleveland, Miss.; six grandchildren, Jackie Haddon and husband Blair of Portland, Ore., Andrea Armstrong of Clive, Iowa, Ryan Armstrong and his wife Connie of Johnston, Iowa, Avery Nagel of Denver Colo., Corey and Kellyn Nagel of Boulder, Colo.; great-grandchildren, Calid Armstrong, Kai and Ian Haddon; and her sister, Dorothy Heisler of Ames, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by husband, Melvin Woodward: her parents, Claude and Dora Cox; brothers, Merle, Howard and Paul Cox; and a sister, Irma (Cox) Metcalf

Myrna's family would like to extend a thank you to the many staff of Maple Heights Nursing Home who helped Myrna during her final years.