Maude Madonna (Quigley) FITZ

QUIGLEY, FITZ, BAUMGARTNER, STEENBLOCK, POTTER, NAIL, BARTELL, WRIGHT, WALKER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/14/2008 at 14:10:01

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
March 1999

CLARION - Maude Madonna Quigley Fitz was born Sept. 9, 1905, at Pond Creek, Okla. She was the daughter of John V. and Myrtie (Baumgartner) Quigley. She was raised and educated in Churdan, Iowa. On Nov. 10, 1924, she was united in marriage to Kenneth M. Fitz in Jefferson, Iowa. After their marriage they farmed north of Rowan until 1934, when they moved to a farm north of Clarion. Kenneth retired from farming in 1955, and they moved to Lake Cornelia until entering the Clarion Health Care Center in 1989. Maude died Wednesday (March 10, 1999) at the Clarion Care Center at the age of 93. She was a member of the Social Hour Club and the Senior Citizens Center of Clarion.

Those left to cherish her memory include her daughters, Rhea Steenblock and husband, Richard, of Belmond, and Barbara Potter of Des Moines; five grandchildren, Jerry Steenblock and wife, Margaret, of Klemme, Susan Nail and husband, Bill Billings, of Dakota Dunes, S.D., Beth Bartell and husband, Lyle, of Mason City, Bruce Potter and wife, Bonnie, of Waterloo, and Debra Potter of Chicago, Ill.; seven great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Lucia Wright of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Beth Walker of Cayce, S.C. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; her daughter, Coetta; two brothers, Corlus and Leland; a sister, Fern; and a son-in-law, Warren Potter.

Her funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13, 1999, at the United Church of Christ, Congregational Church in Clarion. Burial was in the Graceland Cemetery at Rowan. The Rev. Curt Miner officiated. JoAnn Olson was the organist, and Linda Miner sang.