Margie Catherine (Callahan) DEETS

CALLAHAN, DEETS, HEWITT, HUGUNIN, PARTRIDGE, DAVISON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/6/2010 at 11:43:56

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
June 12, 1996

September 15, 1925 --June 10, 1996

NORA SPRINGS, IA -- Margie Catherine (Callahan) Deets, 70, of 1334 Balsam Ave., Nora Springs, died Monday (June 10, 1996) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Nora Springs United Methodist Church, 202 N. Hawkeye, with the Rev. Richard Pippert officiating. Burial will be in Park Cemetery, Nora Springs. Visitation will begin after 4 p.m. today at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 N. Hawkeye, and one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday.

Margie Deets was born Sept. 15, 1925, in Kanawha, daughter of Erle and Mary (Hewitt) Callahan. She married Darrell Deets on Jan. 17, 1945, in Seattle, Wash. She attended school at Cedar No. 5 in Mitchell County and attended the Nora Springs High School. She worked at Bellows Bakery in Nora Springs, the Egg Processing Plant in Osage, Boeing Aircraft in Seattle, Wash., and the Park Cemetery, Nora Springs. Margie enjoyed crocheting, knitting, gardening and crafts. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Nora Springs United Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Darrell Deets of Nora Springs; one son, Darrell "Rusty" Deets and his wife, Sherry, of Bonham, Texas; one daughter, Kim Hugunin and her husband, Clay, of Dickens; two grandchildren, Dawn Partridge and her husband, Keith, of Bonham, Texas, and Brian Deets of Sherman, Texas; one brother, Johnny Callahan and his wife, Bernice, of Austin, Minn.; one sister, Nada Davison and her husband, Jack, of Nora Springs; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents.