Avis Ione (Dodge) LONG

LONG, DODGE, VAN DELDEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/4/2010 at 19:51:56

January 4, 2010
The Hawk Eye, Burlington, Iowa

Avis Ione Long, 88, of Burlington, died at 4:37 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010, at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. Born Oct. 10, 1921, in Boone, she was the daughter of George Frederick and Minnie van Delden Dodge. On Dec. 29, 1946, she married Leslie James Long in Boone. He died March 4, 1960. Mrs. Long taught school at Ida Grove and Eagle Grove high schools and worked as the librarian at Southeastern Community College for 22 years. She worked in the office of Congressman Jim Leach for two years following retirement. She served as deacon and elder of First Presbyterian Church. She was a member of Presbyterian Women, Chapter P, PEO, Des Moines County Historical Society, What-So-Ever Chapter of the King's Daughters, Retired School Personnel, CRISP, United Nations Association, Pi Lambda Theta, Republican Women, Art Guild of Burlington and Friends of Southeast Iowa Symphony.

Survivors include two sons, William Long of St. Paul, Minn., and Robert Long of Chicago and Columbus, Ohio; one grandchild; nieces and nephews. Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and one brother.

The family will receive friends at Prugh's Chapel in Burlington from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The funeral for Mrs. Long will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church in Burlington with the Rev. Debra Miller-Kinney officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Linwood Cemetery in Boone. Memorials have been established for the First Presbyterian Church Organ Fund and Des Moines County Historical Society.