Virginia M. "Dimp" MORTIMER

MORTIMER, WILLADSEN, BURDICK, TAPAGER, BUFFINGTON, NORTON, MCCLINTOCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2007 at 12:33:38

Mason City Globe Gazette
11/14/1995

Virginia M. "Dimp" Mortimer, 89, of 236 N. Crescent Drive, Mason City, died Saturday (Nov. 11, 1995) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit. Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the Wayside Chapel of First United Methodist Church, 119 S. Georgia Ave., with the Rev. Merlin J. Ackerson officiating. Inurnment was held at Memorial Park Cemetery. Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to Hospice of North Iowa or the First United Methodist Church. Fullerton Patterson James Funeral Chapel, 123 Second St. S.E., was chosen to be in charge of the arrangements.

Virginia was born on Oct. 3, 1906, in Lake Mills, a daughter of Jens Tapager and Mary Willadsen Tapager. She was baptized in 1906 and confirmed on June 5, 1921 at the Salem Lutheran Church in Lake Mills. She graduated from the Lake Mills High School in 1924. She was united in marriage to George Mortimer on May 17, 1927, in Minneapolis in a double ceremony with her father and his second wife. To this union were born two children. They lived in Belmond until 1930 when they moved to Mason City where she has lived ever since. "Dimp," as she was known all her life, enjoyed children and spent many years caring for them. She sold Avon products and gave bridge lessons as well as enjoying all sports. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. She also enjoyed playing bridge and attending functions at the Elks Lodge.

Virginia is survived by one son, Richard Mortimer of California; three grandchildren, Mrs. Ross (Kay) McClintock, of Bakersfield, Calif.; the Rev. Richard Mortimer of Tecumseh, Mich.; and Alan Mortimer of Carlsbad, Calif.; seven great grandchildren; one sister-in-law, Doris Tapager of Vallejo, Calif.; two nieces, Mary Joy Norton, Carmen Buffington and two nephews, B.C. "Jim" and Ronald Burdick. Dimp was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother, Ella Tapager; husband in 1960; her son, Larry in 1986; three brothers, Vernon, Roy and Cyril Tapager; two sisters, Ethel Tapager and Merle Burdick; and a daughter-in-law, Dorothy.