Mildred Alford

ALFORD, MEIER

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 3/18/2009 at 10:47:32

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal Nov. 17, 2001
MUSCATINE, Iowa -- Mildred H. Alford, 88, a resident of Lutheran Homes in Muscatine, formerly of Bettendorf, died Friday, Nov. 16, 2001, at the care center.

There will be no services or visitation. Bentley Funeral Home in Wilton is in charge of the arrangements.

She was born Sept. 14, 1913, in Redwing, Minn., the daughter of Emil and Minnie Meier. She married Vernon Alford in 1932 in Davenport.

She worked at the Rock Island Arsenal in the payroll department, retiring in 1980. Previously she worked at the Army Corps of Engineers at the Arsenal.

She enjoyed dancing, bicycling and traveling.

Survivors include a daughter, Merry Howell and her husband, Thomas, of Moscow; a son, Kenneth 'Smokey' Alford and his wife, Bobbi Jo, of Los Cruces, N.M.; three granddaughters, Holly Alford, Julia Mullen Tharp and April Howell; two grandsons, Eric Alford and Tim Mullen; and three great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and a sister.