Pearl Ella Linden 1917-2012

LINDEN LANCASTER TAYLOR

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 12/28/2012 at 22:19:40

Sioux City Journal
12 December 2012

Pearl E. Linden, 95, of Moville, formerly of Kingsley, Iowa, passed away Sunday, Dec. 9, 2012 at Westwood Nursing and Rehab Center in Sioux City.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Johnson–Earnest Funeral Home in Kingsley, with the Rev. Len Garrison officiating. Burial will follow at Good Hope Cemetery, rural Correctionville, Iowa. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Thursday, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m., at the funeral home. Visitation will resume at 9 a.m. Friday at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy may be directed through www.mauerjohnsonfh.com

Pearl Ella Linden was born April 14, 1917, in Rutland Township, Woodbury County, the daughter of Clarence G. and Elizabeth A. (Lancaster) Taylor. She attended country school near her farm home and later graduated from Pierson High School in 1934. Following graduation, Pearl worked as a reporter for the Pierson Progress newspaper. She also assisted her family on the farm and neighbors with housekeeping and raising their children.

On April 2, 1946, Pearl and William Edward Linden were united in marriage at the Congregational Church in Kingsley, Iowa. They made their home at various towns in the Midwest prior to moving to Pierson, Iowa, in the early ’50s. They later lived in Odebolt, Iowa, until moving to their final home in Moville in 1966. Along with homemaking, Pearl worked as a home health care assistant. She became a resident at Westwood Nursing and Rehab on Sept. 14, 2012.

While living on the farm, Pearl enjoyed flower and vegetable gardening. This hobby continued throughout the years and she received numerous awards for her canning and floral arrangements at the Woodbury and Clay county fairs. Pearl also enjoyed bird watching and caring for her houseplants, especially her African violets. She and Bill enjoyed traveling during their retirement, with their most memorable as a trip to Alaska.

She will be lovingly remembered by her husband of 66 years, Bill of Moville, Iowa; a son, Norman Linden and his wife Theresa of Wallingford, Iowa; a daughter, Grace Linden and her special friend Wayne Lindgren of Sioux City; five grandchildren, Lisa McDaniel, Angela (Robert) Mitchell, Shane (Deyra) Rix, Corabeth (special friend Rob Tannenbaum) Linden, Ryan McDaniel; 11 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Clifford (Gilberta) Taylor, Orren (Leota) Taylor, George (Thelma) Taylor, Edward (Alice) Taylor, Victor Taylor, Charles (Ann) Taylor, Lloyd Taylor, Harold Taylor; sisters, Maud (Henry) Pierce, Nellie (Ed) Campbell and Elizabeth Alice Taylor.