Read, Margaret 1890-1981

READ, LANG, HALL, WULF, MONTGOMERY

Posted By: Marilyn Holmes
Date: 10/19/2014 at 08:58:36

The Grinnell (IA) Herald-Register
Sept. 3, 1981

MARGARET READ SERVICES HELD

Margaret Read, 91, of Brooklyn died Sunday night at Grinnell General Hospital.

Funeral services were conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Madison Church of Christ, with Dennis Smith, minister, officiating. Organist was Marilyn Lang, and pallbearers were Craig Lang, Mike Montgomery, Loren Read, Brian Read, Joe Valdez and John W. Hall. Burial was at the I.O.O.F. Cemetery, Brooklyn, with the Nevenhoven Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.

The daughter of William C. and Janet Lang Hall, she was born May 17, 1890, in Madison Township. She attended rural school.

She was married to Glen A. Read on Feb. 21, 1917, and the couple farmed in Bear Creek Township until 1955 when they moved to Brooklyn.

Mrs. Read was a member of the Madison Church of Christ, a charter member of the New Idea Club, and a member of the Madison Church Ladies Aid.

She is survived by her husband, Glen, of the Brookhaven Nursing Home, two sons, Gerald Read of Brooklyn and Ronald Read of Malcom; two daughters, Gladys Wulf of Des Moines and Marilyn Montgomery of Brooklyn; 15 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, two sisters, and two grandchildren.