Marjorie Kathryn Flynn Garland (1927-2010)

GARLAND, FLYNN, MICHALICEK, BEACHLER, SCHRAM, FUNKE, NYHAN, WILSON, BANFORD

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 11/15/2010 at 07:49:11

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, November 9, 2010.

Marjorie Kathryn Flynn Garland, 83, of Ames, died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, at Abington on Grand in Ames. A funeral mass will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Ames. Burial will be in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall in Boone, where a prayer service will be at 7 p.m. and the family will be present from 6 to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday at the funeral chapel and then from 1 p.m. to service time at the church.

Memorials may be directed to the family to be used at their discretion.

Schroeder Memorial Chapel in Boone is handling arrangements.

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, November 10, 2010.

Marjorie Kathryn Flynn Garland, 83, of Ames, passed away Saturday, Nov. 6, 2010, at Abington on Grand in Ames. She left this earth surrounded by her family.

A funeral Mass will be at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at St. Cecilia Catholic Church, 2900 Hoover Ave., in Ames, with the Rev. Jim Secora officiating. Burial will be in Ames Municipal Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 11, at Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall Streets in Boone, where a prayer service will be at 7 p.m. and the family will be present from 6 to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue from 8 to 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 12, at the funeral chapel, and then from 1 p.m. to service time at the church.

Marjorie was a daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and great-great-grandmother, and considered family her greatest gift. All who knew her knew family came before all other things. Her home was open to all. When anyone entered her home, they were quickly made a part of her family. Everyone was always warmly greeted and generously fed. Someone once asked her what her hobbies were and she replied, “Being with family.” This included Sunday dinners at her parents’ house, attending the weddings of her children and grandchildren, celebrating the births of grandchildren and great-grandchildren and traveling to spend time with her children. She will truly be missed by her family and friends.

She was born May 9, 1927, in Boone. She attended a one-room school house and then Gilbert High School, where she graduated in 1944. She went to work as a secretary at the Iowa State University Library in Ames after graduation. The following year on July 12, 1945, she married Robert Richard Garland in rural Boone at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. Later, she also worked as a secretary to a doctor and a lawyer. During the 1950s, she and Robert opened and operated the “Lucky G” restaurant at the corner of Lincoln Way and Grand Avenue in Ames. After the sale of the Lucky G, she worked at the ISU Dairy Building as a secretary and later on for 21 years for the Ames School District as secretary to the Ames superintendent and at Sawyer Elementary.

She is survived by her five children, Linda (Steve) Michalicek, of Spring, Texas, Chuck (Kelli Faidley) Garland, of Ames, Leanne (Rich) Beachler, of Boone, Robert (Luann) Garland, of Hutchinson, Kan., and Sean Garland, of Houston; one sister, Mary (Don) Schram, of Cedar Rapids; one sister-in-law, Dorothy Garland, of Boone; eight grandchildren, Jane Funke, of Madison, Wis., Kathryn Garland, of Kenosha, Wis., Shannon Nyhan, of Burnt Hills, N.Y., Robert Garland, of Hutchinson, Kan., Sherry Garland, of Maquoketa, Aleda Beachler, of Ankeny, Megan Wilson, of Tomball, Texas, and Ian Beachler, of Boone; 12 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 61 years; one daughter, Kathryn Garland; her parents, Sarah and Charles Flynn; one sister, Rose Banford; and her grandsons, David Garland and Christopher Michalicek.

Memorials may be directed to the family to be used at their discretion.

Online condolences may be made to www.schroedermemorialchapel.com.

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