Margery Dillon 1913~~2007

DILLON, WRIGHT, HAYES, ZEPP, LEPPERT, DWIGHT, GARRELS, UTTERBACK

Posted By: Mary (email)
Date: 12/26/2007 at 19:31:48

Courtesy of the Ottumwa Courier Dec. 25, 2007

OTTUMWA — Margery Dillon, age 95, of Ottumwa and formerly of the Pekin area, passed away Sunday, Dec. 23, 2007, at the Ottumwa Regional Health Center.Visitation will open at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at the Fremont Funeral Chapel Thursday, with the family present between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m. Funeral services will be Friday, Dec. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Hedrick/Martinsburg United Methodist Church in Hedrick. Interment will follow at Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Ottumwa. Memorials may be made in her name to her family.Margery Dillon was born June 15, 1912, in Pekin, Iowa, the daughter of John Elbert and Bessie Belle Hayes Zepp.

She was a 1930 graduate of Martinsburg High School. On Dec. 25, 1930, she was united in marriage to Everett M. Dillon at the home of her parents. Three children were born to this union, Carl Everett and Clair Leon Dillon, and Mary Belle Dillon Wright.In 1937 Everett and Margery purchased the farm where she lived for 70 years, 30 of which as a widow. Margery was devoted to her husband, children and grandchildren and had a special relationship to Tony and Angela Bond and their sons Stratton and Jared.

She was employed at Scott’s Browse Shop in Colorado Springs, Colo., for many summers, was a part time employee of the University Book Store in Des Moines, Iowa, and for six years was a bus driver for the Pekin School.She enjoyed traveling in all 50 states, southern provinces of Canada and most of the countries in Western Europe. For several winters she and her husband spent time in Arizona and in recent winters she and her son Carl shared a home in Sun City West where she attended the Shepherd of the Hills United Methodist Church, and had many friends there.

Margery gave her life to Jesus when she was fifteen in a revival meeting conducted by Rev. Lawrence Hight at the Pekin Methodist Church and was a member there until it closed. She then joined the Martinsburg United Methodist Church and later the Hedrick Martinsburg United Methodist Church.She became a member of the Pekin Ladies Aid in 1931, Martinsburg Women’s Society and the Hedrick Martinsburg United Methodist Women’s group. She was a charter member of the neighborhood women’s group known as the Jolly Janes and remained a member for many years.

Margery also taught Sunday School for many years. She and her husband became members of the Farm Bureau in 1934 and she still was a member at the present time. She attended county and township women’s groups and served as township chairman. She was a leader of the Competine Peppy Pals Girls 4-H Club for four years.

Mrs. Dillon is survived by her sons, Clair Dillon and his wife Jane of Agency, and Carl Dillon of Waverly; a daughter, Mary Belle Wright and her husband Richard of Hedrick; four grandchildren, Patricia (Eric) Simonton, Ross (Cherlyn) Wright, Roger Wright, and Pamela Hurley; 11 great-grandchildren, Benjamin Wallace, Tiffany (Mark) Spray, Whitney Wright, Caitlyn Wright, Lindy Wright, Jared Wright, Jordan Wright, Blake Wright, Abbie Leppert, Morgan Leppert, Dillon Leppert, and was anticipating the birth of a great-great-grandson in March.

Margery was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Everett in 1977, four brothers, Merle, H. Dwight, Rex and Ralph Zepp, and two sisters, Edith Garrels and Carrie May Utterback.Fremont Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.