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Margaret Fay (Toft) BUSEMAN

TOFT, BUSEMAN, ROBINSON, MCMURRAY, HARVEY, WILSON, BERNEMAN, RADECHEL, MILLER, ANDERSON, FIELD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/7/2007 at 01:50:33

December 9, 2003

Margaret F. Buseman, 84, of Belmond, died on Wednesday, December 3, 2003, at the Belmond Medical Center. Funeral services were held on Saturday, December 6, at the United Church of Christ Congregational in Belmond, with Pastor Lynne Spencer-Smith officiating. Burial was in the Ell Township Cemetery, Klemme.

Margaret Fay, the daughter of Nels Jorgensen and Hazel Robinson Toft, was born in Bennett, Colorado on February 2, 1919. She attended local schools and grew up in Colorado. On July 23, 1938, she married Melvin Buseman at the Immanuel Evangelical Reformed Church in Klemme. After living for a short time in Colorado, the couple made their home in the Klemme, Alexander, Goodell and Belmond areas. Margaret took care of numerous jobs around the farm, including chickens, gardening, canning and baking. She cooked and baked everything from scratch. She sewed all of her daughters clothing. Margaret also crocheted, did hardanger, and made quilts from her own designs. Margaret was a member of the Immanuel Evangelical Reformed Church in Klemme and the United Church of Christ Congregational in Belmond.

Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a grandson; two sisters; and one brother. Margaret is survived by daughters, Marcia (Richard) McMurray of Belmond, Gwendolyn (Tom) Harvey of Waukee and Ione (Mike) Wilson of Adel; grandchildren, Brad (Julie) Berneman of Belmond, Shawn (Raquel) Berneman of Mason City, Gina (Craig) Radechel of Clarion, Mike (Pam) Wilson of Johnston, Traci (Roger) Miller of Adel and Mark (Megan) Anderson of Des Moines; nine great-grandchildren; sisters, Dorothy Field of Colorado Springs and Hazel Harvey of Mesa, Arizona; and brothers, Fritz (Allyne) Toft of Mesa and Herb Toft of Blackforest, Colorado.

©Belmond Independent 2003


 

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