Marie Annola Bailey (1920-2005)

BAILEY, STRUM, TOWNSEND, DANIELS, NELSON, JONDALL

Posted By: Stacy McCartney (email)
Date: 4/13/2010 at 12:33:23

The Nevada Journal, Nevada, Story County, Iowa, May 12, 2005.

Marie Annola Bailey, 84, of Nevada, died Saturday, May 7, at Rolling Green Village in Nevada. Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 10, at Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home in Story City with Rev. Tom Hunt officiating. Burial was in the Roland Cemetery.

Marie was born Dec. 4, 1920, in Roland to Silas and Severide (Stole) Nelson. She resided in Roland, Nevada and Ames prior to moving to the Rolling Green Village in Nevada in August 2002. She graduated from Roland High School; married Marion Bailey on Dec. 25, 1938; and was a member of Salem Lutheran Church in Roland and Memorial Lutheran Church in Nevada. She was a homemaker and served as a greeter at the Wal Mart in Ames following her husband's death.

Survivors include two sons, Charles (Kathryn) Bailey of Ames and David Bailey of Ames; one step-sister, Bernita Strum of Des Moines; two grandchildren, Kristine Townsend of Leawood, KS, and Jolyn Daniels of Overland Park, KS; and two great-grandchildren, Olivia and Grace Townsend of Leawood, KS.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, step-mother (Ruby Nelson) and a step-brother (Ronald Jondall).