Mary G. (Rowen) BRINDLE

ROWEN, BRINDLE, WARDEN, LAWLER, SMITH, HERYFORD, CLAYBROOK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/24/2006 at 00:04:45

Mary G. Brindle, 78, of Belmond, died Sunday, May 12, 2002 at the Belmond Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 15, at First Baptist Church in Union, with Revs. Roger Crawford and John Murray officiating. Interment will be at the Union Cemetery.

Mary was born February 5, 1924 in Hardin Country, the daughter of Burl and Mable (Claybrook) Rowen. Raised and educated in the Union-Whitten area, she graduated in 1942 from the Whitten High School. She attended beauty school in Des Moines and Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls. She married George A. Brindle on February 20, 1949, in Union, and they farmed in the Union-Whitten area. She owned and operated the O.K. Cafe in Union from 1970 to 1972. Following the death of her husband in 1975, she was employed by the Marshall County Care Facility until her retirement in 1986. She moved to Osage in 1994 and to Belmond in 2000. Mary was a member of the Baptist Church in Osage, the Ann Judson Circle, Hubbard American Legion Auxiliary, the Shepherd Community Club and had been attending Calvary Baptist Church in Belmond.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; brothers, Robert, William and Pete; and sisters, Opal Rowen and Hazel Heryford. She is survived by sons, Charles (Sheryl) Brindle of Belmond and Duane Brindle of Missouri Valley; daughters, Diane Warden and Janine Lawler of Union; sister, Myrna Smith of Union; brother, Paul Rowen of Union; 15 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

©Belmond Independent 2002
May 14, 2002