Mayme Emma (Peck) MOURLAM

MOURLAM, PECK, MASTERS, BOWMAN, WOODS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2008 at 10:45:44

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa
14 May 1964

25 September 1911 --- 13 May 1964

Mourlam Rites To Be Friday

Funeral services for Mrs. George E. (Mayme) Mourlam, 52, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday at the Missionary Alliance church in Blairsburg with the Rev. Milford Olson of Cedar Rapids officiating. Burial will be in Graceland cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Foster funeral home until 10 a.m. Friday when it will be taken to the church. Mrs. Mourlam died Wednesday morning at the University Hospital in Iowa City. She had been in ill health since January.

Mayme Emma Peck, daughter of Frank and Mary Peck, was born Sept. 25, 1911, on a farm near Blairsburg. She was reared and educated in the Blairsburg community. She was united in marriage Jan. 29, 1931, to George E. Mourlam, and the couple farmed in Woolstock township for 12 years, then moved to a farm in Wall Lake township. After the death of her husband on March 20, 1960, Mrs. Mourlam moved into Webster City where she had since resided.

She is survived by one son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mourlam of Maumee, Ohio; three daughters and one son-in-law, Rev. and Mrs. Edward Masters of Dixon, Ill., Miss Lois Mourlam and Miss Sharon Mourlam, both of Chicago; four grandchildren, Collen Masters, Gretchen, Janelle and Nathan Richard Mourlam; one brother and two sisters, John Peck of Webster City, Mrs. Lottie Bowman, Albert Lea, Minn., and Mrs. Stella Woods, Phoenix, Ariz. She was preceded in death by her husband; one sister and two brothers. Mrs. Mourlam was a member of the Missionary Alliance church at Blairsburg.