Mary Mildred (Dyer) WARD

WARD, DYER, FALK, OSWALD, BLACK, SEILER, LARSON, MARKER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/25/2011 at 22:36:47

20 August 1898 --- 12 June 1995

Mary Dyer was born August 20, 1898, near Ayrshire. She attended high school in Great Oak Township, and later attended normal training school in Emmetsburg. She taught county school in Great Oak Township for one year and in 1924 was united in marriage to Walter Ward in Algona. The couple farmed in the Titonka, Wesley, Corwith and Humboldt areas. Following her husband's death she continued to live in Curlew, until the fall of 1986, when she moved to Humboldt. In November of 1988 she moved to the Care Center South in Humboldt. She was a member of the Jessica Circle, Beaver's Ladies Group, and was a hospital volunteer at Emmetsburg for many years. She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church. Her interests were her church, gardening, sewing, tatting, family, flowers, and baseball. Mary Ward passed away at the Care Center South in Humboldt on June 12, at the age of 96 years, following a lengthy illness. She is survived by her daughters, June Oswald of Brownsdale, Minnesota; Mary Black of Norman, Oklahoma; Laura Seiler of Humboldt; and Sylvie Larson of Thor; a son, Walter Ward, Jr. of Pella; 23 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren; and a sister, Lillian Marker of Booneville, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter, in 1968; a son, John; four grandchildren; four sisters; and three brothers.