Margaret L. (Hess) GARDALEN

GARDALEN, TERRELL, MAYNES, HESS, DUNCAN, BELL, DEHEER, ANDERSON, VITIRITTO, MCGRIFF

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/23/2006 at 19:50:34

April 18, 1921 --- November 14, 2006

Margaret L. Gardalen, 85, died Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at the Carlisle Care Center. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m., Saturday, November 18, 2006 at Grandview Park Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Chapel Hill Cemetery. Margaret was born in Williams, Iowa and lived in Dows, Iowa until 1964 when the family moved to Des Moines. Margaret had worked as a cashier at Boralls SuperValue and retired from Dahls on East Euclid.

Survivors include her daughters, Marla (Don) Terrell of Des Moines, Nancy (Don) Gardalen Maynes of Des Moines; sons, Thomas (Diane) Gardalen of Holstein, John Gardalen, Sr. of Des Moines; brothers, Robert Hess, Virgil Hess, Richard Hess; eight grandchildren, Kim Duncan, Lisa Bell, Brenda DeHeer, Carren Anderson, Michelle Vitiritto, John Gardalen, Jr., Brian Gardalen, Alicia Gardalen; 19 great- grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Margaret was preceded in death by her husband Orville earlier this year and her granddaughter, Erin McGriff. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Grandview Park Funeral Home.

Des Moines Register, Iowa
November 16, 2006