Shacklett, Edith M. 1893-1985

SHACKLETT, MOORE, MYERS, MCGREGOR, KRIEG, EDWARDS, CALHOUN, BARRON

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 2/7/2014 at 13:09:32

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Nov. 14, 1985

MRS.SHACKLETT DIES TUESDAY

Edith M. Shacklett, 92, formerly of Ottumwa and Iowa City, died Tuesday, Nov. 12, at the Mayflower Home Health Care Center where she had lived since 1982.

Her body was donated to the University of Iowa College of Medicine. A memorial service will be conducted at a later date in Ottumwa.

Memorials may be made to the Mayflower Home in Grinnell or to the First Baptist Church in Ottumwa. Friends may call the Smith Funeral Home for additional information.

The daughter of Albert Edwin and Nannie Catherine Moore Myers, she was born March 19, 1893, at Memphis, Mo. She graduated from Memphis High School and attended Kirksville Normal School, later teaching in the Hannibal and Scotland County schools in Missouri.

She was married to Olin E. Shacklett on Sept. 2, 1914, at Memphis, and the couple continued to live there until 1921 when they moved to Ottumwa. While in Ottumwa, Mrs. Shacklett was a member of the First Baptist church and the Fidelis group at the church.

In 1941 they moved to Iowa City where she was a member of the Presbyterian Church, the Iowa City Women's Club, the Iowa Historical Society and the National Historical society. They returned to Ottumwa in 1961. Mrs. Shacklett was a resident of Myers Manor there for eight years before coming to the Mayflower Home here.

She is survived by her son, Robert O. Shacklett of Arapahoe, Neb.; two daughters, Mary Kathryn McGregor of State Line, Nev.; and Janet S. Krieg of West Des Moines; six grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and one sister Ada Edwards of Denver. Colo.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1963; her parents; two brothers, Benjamin M. Myers and Edwin C. Myers; and two sisters, Nellie M. Calhoun and Mary B. Barron.