Margaret "Marnie" Goeppinger (1913-2008)
GOEPPINGER, WOODS, HALL, MOFFITT, ANDERSON, PHILLIPS, REEESE
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 2/2/2008 at 07:48:10
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, February 1, 2008.
Nov. 15, 1913-Jan. 28, 2008
Margaret "Marnie" Goeppinger died Monday, Jan. 28, at Eastern Star Masonic Home in Boone. The memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 8, at the First United Methodist Church, Seventh and Arden streets, in Boone.
Visitation will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at Stark-Welin Chapel, 609 Seventh St., in Boone.
Margaret "Marnie" Goeppinger was born Nov. 15, 1913, in Waterloo, the daughter of Charles M. Woods and Lulu Hall Woods. At the age of 1, the family moved to Los Angeles, and when she was 6, they moved to Ames.
She graduated from Ames High School in 1931 and from Iowa State College in 1935. Immediately after graduation, she married Walter Goeppinger and moved to Boone, where she lived most of her life.
She was a member of First Church of Christ Scientist, remained active in that church in Ames throughout her life and served as a reader.
She was an active member of Mamie Eisenhower Questers, Junior Monday Club, PEO Chapter J.L., the Pi Beta Phi Alumni Club for ISU, former chairperson of the Boone County Red Cross and founder of the Boone Area Humane Society.
Her interests included cooking, entertaining, travel, caring for animals, swimming, walking, caring for her grandchildren and reading the Bible.
She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Hans and Wanda Goeppinger, and Neil and Ginny Goeppinger, all of Boone; four grandchildren, Krista Moffitt and her husband, Chris, Sheila Anderson and her husband, David, all of Boone, Tauri Phillips and her husband James, of West Des Moines, and Cole Goeppinger, of San Francisco; and six great-grandchildren, Charlie and Caroline Moffitt, and Allison and Hans Anderson, all of Boone, and Madeline and Bella Phillips, of West Des Moines.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter; two brothers, Manford and Mac Woods; and one sister, Charlene Reese.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be given to the Foundation for Boone Area Humane Society.
Online condolences may be expressed at www.
starkwelin.com.Stark-Welin Funeral Directors in Boone is in charge of arrangements.
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