Marian C. (Hicks) FELLER

FELLER, HICKS, TRUMAN, FINCH, ROBERTS, BORENSTEIN, WHITEHEAD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/30/2008 at 20:23:30

The Gazette, Cedar Rapids-Iowa City, IA
May 30, 2008

Marian C. Feller, 97, formerly of Vinton, died Wednesday, May 28, 2008, in Friendship Village, Bloomington, Minn., following a sudden illness. Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Wesley United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Karen Larson officiating. Burial Evergreen Cemetery, Vinton. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Phillips Family Center, Vinton.

Marian was born July 13, 1910, to Samuel A. and Jennie (Truman) Hicks of rural Dows, and graduated from the Hampton High School in 1928. She attended Iowa State College in Ames, and taught five years in the rural schools in Franklin County, Iowa, and the Chapin Independent Consolidated School. In 1936, she married Kenneth H. Feller, who preceded her in death in 1972. In 1942, Marian and Kenneth Feller moved to Vinton where they owned and operated Feller's variety store. Marian was a member of the Wesley United Methodist Church of Vinton and was active in the Woman's Society of Christian Service and served as president. For many years Marian taught preschool children in the Sunday school Department and later became an instructor for the Christian Laboratory Schools of the United Methodist Church. She found satisfaction inspiring new teachers throughout the church conference. She was a 50-year member of the PEO Sisterhood and was a past president of Chapter HG in Vinton. She treasured her association with the Vinton Woman's Club, Mentor Club, her bridge club and a birthday group. Since 1989, she resided at Friendship Village in Bloomington, Minn., near the home of her daughter Katherine and family. During her years in Bloomington she enjoyed many activities at Friendship Village and at Hillcrest United Methodist Church.

Marian is survived by one brother and his wife, Richard and Dolores Hicks of Hampton; her children and their spouses, Barbara and Duane Finch of Loveland, Ohio, Paul and Karen Feller of Milford, Ohio, and Katherine and George Roberts of Bloomington, Minn.; eight grandchildren, Laurie Finch (Mrs. Jonas Borenstein) of Ann Arbor, Mich., Julie Finch of Loveland, Ohio, Stephanie Whitehead (Mrs. Jeffrey) of Iowa City, Andy (Kim) Feller of Troy, Ill., Eric (Jean) Feller of Williamsburg, Matthew Feller of Brooklyn Park, Minn., Mark Roberts of New Brunswick, N.J., and Alison Roberts of Bloomington, Minn.; 13 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents and husband, Kenneth, she was preceded in death by her brother and sister-in-law, Llewellyn and Frances Hicks.