Mary Grace (McGarr) Wolterman 1920 - 2016

MCGARR, WOLTERMAN, BARR

Posted By: Connie Swearingen - volunteer (email)
Date: 6/11/2016 at 01:03:50

Mapleton Press
12 May 2016

Mary G. (McGarr) Wolterman, 96, of Mapleton, and formerly of Danbury, passed away Sunday, May 1, at Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton.

Mary Grace Wolterman was born Jan. 10, 1920 in Oto, the daughter of Charles M. and Ethel P. (Barr) McGarr (deceased). She married Marcellus G. Wolterman on Feb. 25, 1941. They had a dairy farm in the Danbury area until 1982 when they retired and moved to Mapleton. Marcellus died Dec. 18, 2004.

Mary was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mapleton. She was a past president of St. Mary’s Danbury Rosary Society and loved gardening, ceramics, and woodworking, but her greatest accomplishment was her eight children.

She is survived by six children: Paul Wolterman and his wife Judy, Linda Aiken and her husband Fred, Fanchon Dirksen and her husband Fred, Morna Levatino and her husband Tony, Mark Wolterman and his wife Sherrie, Marcine Burns and her husband Keith; 12 grandchildren: Patti Manthorne, Julie Burroughs, Adam and David Dirksen, Brian Aiken, Debra Guzman, Marcy and Joseph Levatino, Kent Fredricksen, Mitchel Wolterman, Tara McLeran, and Mariah Burns; 10 great-grandchildren: Ashley Hobbs, Alex Gosch, Carter Manthorne, Gabbrielle and Dannielle Mellott, Emma Butterworth, Lily, Avery and Brynn Burroughs, Leo Dirksen; a great-grandchild: Nora Hobbs.

Along with her beloved husband, Marcellus, Mary was preceded in death by son, Pete, daughter, Marsha; three grandchildren, Mike Wolterman, Marlys Wolterman, and Cheryl Mellott; and one great-grandson, Tyler Gosch; six siblings: Gerelda Bowman, Paul and Francis McGarr, Maxine Kirkpatrick, Louise Hughes, and Fanchon Sherer.

All memorials may be sent to the Danbury Catholic School in Danbury.

Funeral Mass: Thursday, May 5, 10 a.m., St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Danbury.

Officiating: Rev. Daniel Greving.

Urn Bearers: Adam Dirksen and Mitchel Wolterman.

Message in Music: “Alleluia Sing to Jesus,” “Because the Lord is My Shepherd,” “On This Day O Beautiful Mother,” “O Loving God,” “I Know That My Redeemer Lives.”

Inurnment: Danbury Catholic Cemetery, Danbury.

Funeral arranged and conducted by Armstrong Funeral Homes.