Opal D. (Back) MATHRE

MATHRE, BACK, MCDORMAN, MONTGOMERY, MADDEN, RAAB

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/15/2010 at 22:58:59

MASON CITY— Opal D. Mathre, 82, 1000 N. Eisenhower Ave., Mason City and formerly of Clear Lake, died Wednesday (Aug. 24, 2005) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa, Mason City. In accordance with her wishes, she will be cremated and there will be no services. The family suggests memorials to Hospice of North Iowa.

Opal was born Feb. 7, 1923, in Klemme, the daughter of Chris and May E. (McDorman) Back. She graduated from Ventura High School in 1940. She was a beautician for many years, having graduated from La’James Beauty College in 1941. Opal married T.H. Mathre in 1942 and they had three children, Tom, Julie and Tammy. In 1969, she went back to school and became a licensed practical nurse and worked in that capacity at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Knoxville, Iowa, untill her retirement in 1980.

Opal is survived by her daughter, Julie Montgomery, Mason City, and son, Tom, Oskaloosa; two grandchildren, Darcy Madden, Mason City, and Mike Raab and his wife, Kelly, Littleton, Colo.; and three great-grandchildren, Derek, Josie and Calvin. Opal was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Tilford (April 28, 1989); daughter, Tammy Irene Mathre; and two brothers, Leo and Gerald “Pete” Back. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake

August 26, 2005
Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa