Little, Miriam L. 1925-2003

LITTLE, OSTROM, DAYTON, HAMMER, JERMIER, ALLEN

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 6/21/2013 at 09:46:41

The Brooklyn (IA) Chronicle
Aug. 20, 2003

MRS. MIRIAM L. LITTLE, 77

Mrs. Miriam L. Little, 77, of Brooklyn, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 2003, at Brooklyn Community Estates.

Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Nevenhoven Funeral Home.

Services will be held 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, at the Grace United Methodist Church in Brooklyn. Interment will be in the Brooklyn Memorial Cemetery.

The casket bearers will be Troy Hammer, Travis Hammer, Erin Yeager, Chris Jermier, Matt Jermier, Julie Jermier, D.J. Davis and Lance Little.

A memorial fund has been established.

Miriam Louis Dayton Little, the daughter of Freeman Egbert and Grace ((Ostrom) Dayton, was born Sept. 7, 1925, in Grinnell. She spent her childhood in rural Brooklyn and Montezuma. She graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1943. She graduated from William Penn College in 1973.

On Feb. 14, 1950, she married Robert W. Little at the Grace United Methodist Church in Brooklyn. She taught in rural schools at Brooklyn and Hartwick. She later stayed home to raise her children. In 1960, the couple moved to Monroe. She returned to the work force in 1962 as a secretary. They moved back to Brooklyn in 1967. Miriam then began teaching in Malcom and later in Brooklyn. She retired n 1987 from BGM Schools.

She was a member of Grace United Methodist Church, the Grace UMW, BGMEA and ISEA.

Miriam was preceded in death by her parents and a grandson.

She is survived by her husband, Robert; two daughters and their husbands, Becky and Richard Hammer, of Newton, and Brenda and Dave Jermier, of Dallas Center; a son and his wife, Keith and Vicki Little, of Montezuma; a sister and her husband, Norma and Earl Allen, of Montezuma; a brother and his wife, Larry and Anna Grace Dayton, of Brooklyn; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.