Marian Ellis (Bradley) Chance (1926-2017)

CHANCE, BRADLEY, DICKENSON, SWANSON, LYONS, HECKLE, HELMICH, UTTER, SILVERTHRON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 2/5/2017 at 08:26:04

From Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care obituary, Ames, Story County, Iowa:

Marian Ellis Chance, 90, of Ames died January 01, 2017 at Accura of Ames.

A gathering of friends and relatives will be Saturday, January 7 at Grandon Funeral and Cremation Care, 414 Lincoln Way in Ames, from 1 to 2 p.m. with a Celebration of Life at 2 p.m.

Marian was born November 27, 1926 in Union, Iowa. Marian's parents were Henry Bradley and Lois Dickenson. Marian graduated from Union High School. She worked for 25 years at the Ames Stationary Store. In 1968 she married Marion Chance. After his passing she would regularly take in foster children. She had a very caring way about her, helping everyone she could. Marian loved to be social. Her sisters and friends would regularly have scrabble nights at Ballard Creek in Huxley, always ending a night of scrabble with a bowl of chicken noodle soup. Around the holidays Marian was known as the "happy hooker", always hanging up all of the ornaments onto the Christmas tree.

Marian is survived by her daughter Lois "Beth" and Bob Swanson of Ames; her siblings, Carol Lyons, Nancy Heckle, John Bradley, Janet Helmich, Leslie Utter, and Loren Bradley; grandchildren, Melanie Silverthron and Jay Swanson; great-grandchildren, Nicole Deal; great-great grandchildren, Aryen, Olivia, and Keegan; and many foster children. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother Herbert Bradley.

The family requests that donations be made to Child Find of America, childfindofamerica.org.

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