Maynie L. Workman

WORKMAN, BRICKEY, HEISEL, HAMBURG, WHITACRE, LARUE

Posted By: Chuck Workman (email)
Date: 4/13/2009 at 23:29:51

Maynie L. Workman, 99, of Good Samaritan Center in Keosauqua, died at 2:15 a.m. Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua.

The funeral will be held at 1 a.m. Thursday at the Behner Funeral Home, Fairfield, Iowa, with the Rev. Jerry Caughron officiating. Burial will be in Spencer Cemetery, Northeast of Stockport.

Family visitation will be held from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday at the funeral home. Friends may call between noon and 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The family requests memorials be made to the Good Samaritan Center.

Mrs. Workman was born March 10, 1903, in Milford, Ill, the daughter of John Lafeyette and Salena Victoria Horne Brickey. She married Lloyd (Ike) Workman, Nov. 28, 1931. He died May 4, 1968.

Mrs. Workman attended Parsons College. She was a school teacher before her marriage.

She lived most of her life in the Stockport community, where she and Ike owned and operated the Stockport Cafe with his brother and sister-in-law, Shorty and Louise Workman.

They started the first John Deere dealership in Stockport and owned and operated Stockport Oil Company with Shorty and Louise Workman.

Mrs. Workman was a memer of Stockport United Methodist Church, where she was a member of the United Methodist Women and a Sunday School Teacher.

She also was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and Laf-Alot-Club.

Her hobbies were knitting and sewing.

She moved to Cantril in 1980.

Survivors include four grandchildren, Kelly Heisel and Susan Hamburg, both of Cantril; Mary Whitacre of Boone and Cindy Larue of Ottumwa; 10 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Nancy Heisel; two sisters, Thelma and Mildred; and three brohers,Kyle, Raymond and Bob.