Marjorie LaVonne (Judson) SURLS SQUIER

SQUIER, JUDSON, MARYHEW, SURLS, JENSEN, THIES, HUMPHREY, AGAN, WILLIAMS, STEWART, LENTZ, SILVEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/22/2012 at 12:20:09

January 4, 1920 ---- February 18, 2012

Marjorie Squier, 92, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, passed away Saturday, February 18, 2012 at the Heritage Care Center, Iowa Falls. Funeral services for Marjorie Squier will be 11:00 am Wednesday, February 22, 2012, at the First Christian Church, 221 Fischer Avenue, Iowa Falls, Iowa. A time of visitation will be from 10:00 am Wednesday until services at the First Christian Church. Burial will be at the Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls. The Linn's Funeral Homes Iowa Falls Chapel has been entrusted with the arrangements.

Marjorie LaVonne (Judson) Squier was born January 4, 1920, in Dows Iowa, the daughter of Lucy Amelia (Maryhew) and James Edgar Judson. She was 6 years old when her father died in November of 1926. Marjorie was the middle child of a family of 5 and they lived with her grandmother Lydia Olivia Maryhew in a home without running water and a cook stove as their only heat in the wintertime. She attended school in Dows and was married in 1937 to Kenneth L. Surls and to that union one child, Connie, was born. She worked as a clerk for J.J. Newberry and then became a cashier for Clifton’s Supermarket in Iowa Falls for many years. When it closed in 1957, she traveled to California where she worked for Safeway Supermarket in Burbank, California, as a cashier and retired from there some years later. She met and married Mark V. Squier in August of 1959. In 1989 she returned to Iowa Falls to make her home on Sanford Drive. Marjorie loved the LA Dodgers and attended many ball games while living in California. She was a wonderful cook and enjoyed cooking. Her grandchildren requested her potato salad and her pea salad and most of all her peanut butter fudge. She was talented in playing the organ by ear. She was an avid reader and a crossword puzzle champion. She collected life like dolls and over 100 dolls were displayed in her “doll room” in her home. She enjoyed her family and looked forward to Christmas, far in advance, when everyone would be together. Writing letters to her nieces, nephews and friends was a favorite pastime of hers.

Marjorie Squier is survived by her daughter, Connie Surls of Iowa Falls, Iowa; her 5 grandchildren Bret (Beth Jensen) Thies of Indianola; Tony (Mari) Thies of Iowa Falls, Ann (Tom) Humphrey of Polk City; Bruce (Laura) Thies of Iowa Falls and Jill (Kenny) Agan of Ankeny; 15 great-grandchildren: Brooke (Tyler) Williams; Brandon (Jody) Thies; Ryan Humphrey, Jaime Thies; Ashlee Humphrey; Emilee Humphrey; Cody Thies, Andrew Humphrey; Austin Thies; Brayden Thies; Brodie Thies; Olivia Agan; Ella Agan; Kaitlyn Thies and Samuel Agan; 4 great-great grandchildren: Turner and Ava Williams and Montana and Tatum Thies; her sister-in-law Bonnie Judson of Clarion and many nieces and nephews. Preceding her in death are her parents, her husband and 4 siblings: Richard C. Stewart; Avis K. Lentz; Donnabelle Silvey and James E. Judson Jr.

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