Margaret E. Bainbridge 1915 - 1999

BAINBRIDGE, CHAMPENY, LYLE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/1/2014 at 21:05:00

Sioux City Journal
1 March 1999

KINGLSEY, Iowa - Margaret E. Bainbridge, 83, of Kingsley, formerly of Pierson, Iowa, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1999, at a Sioux City nursing home.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Kinglsey Cemtery in Kingsley, with the Rev. Keith Pals from the Pierson United Methodist Church officiating. Visitation will begin after 2 p.m. today at the Earnest-Michaelson Funeral Home in Kingsley, with the family present from 7 to 8 p.m.

Mrs. Bainbridge was born June 14, 1915, in Kingsley, the daughter of William and Daisy (Champeny) Lyle. She graduated from Kinglsey High School. She married Lloyd Bainbridge Nov. 14, 1932, in Canton, S.D. He died Jan. 18, 1992.

After their marriage the couple farmed in the Kingsley-Pierson area, retiring in the mid 1970s. They moved to Kingsley in October 1990.

She was a member of the Pierson United Methodist Church and the Good Hope Club. She enjoyed gardening, reading and crossword puzzles.

Survivors include three sons, Tom Bainbridge and his wife, Judy, of Holstein, Iowa, Lynn Bainbridge of Arlington, Texas, and Ken Bainbridge of Pierson; one sister-in-law, Alice Roepke of Kinglsey; one brother-in-law, Milford Matthews of Arizona; three grandchildren, Tracy Bainbridge, Timi Wunschel and Kristy Stanfield, and two great grandsons.

She was preceded in death by an infant son, Robert; a grandson, Tate Kelly Bainbridge; a great grandson; three brothers, and three sisters.