Marjorie Janice (Glade) STOVER

GLADE, STOVER, HOLLAND, KRUKOW, EMBREE, HICKS, MUHLENBRUCH, BROWN, JACOBSEN, LOHRBACH, DORR, FRASER, PARRIOTT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/13/2013 at 18:19:28

October 3, 1917 --- January 4, 2013

DOWS — Marjorie J. “Marj” Stover, 95, of Dows, passed away Friday Jan. 4, 2013, at Rehabilitation Center of Hampton. Memorial services for Marjorie J. Stover will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, at the United Methodist Church in Dows. Pastor Kalen Fristad will officiate. Inurnment will be in the Fairview cemetery. Friends may greet the family one hour prior to services at the church on Saturday. Memorial services are under the direction of Dugger Funeral Home, 100 North Lee St. in Dows.

Marjorie Janice, the daughter of John and Minnie Holland Glade, was born Oct. 3, 1917, at her family’s home east of Dows. She attended school in Dows and graduated from Dows High School in 1936. After high school Marge worked at the Meyer’s Grocery Store in Dows.

Marjorie was united in marriage to William Walter Stover Jr. on Oct. 17, 1940, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. The couple made their home on a farm near Dows where Marge worked as a farm wife and mother.

The couple was blessed with three daughters: Roberta, Barbara and Lois. After her husband and love of her life passed away at an early age, Marge moved into Dows. She worked for many years at the grocery store and at The Mercantile in Dows. In 2009 she moved to the Rehabilitation Center of Hampton.

Marjorie loved her flower beds, crocheting, traveling, chocolate, and most of all the valuable time she shared with her loving family. Marge was a member of the United Methodist Church in Dows.

Marjorie is survived by her three daughters: Roberta (Bobbi) Krukow and her husband, Ronald of Dows, Barbara Embree of Fort Worth, Texas, Lois Hicks and her husband, David of Hampton; seven grandchildren: Carla (Shannon) Muhlenbruch, Debra (Ciaron) Brown, Devon Embree, T.J. Embree, Kimberly (Corey) Jacobsen, Jennifer (Michael) Lohrbach, Jonathan (Jordan) Hicks; 10 great-grandchildren: Scott, Mikyla, Kaitlyn, Gavon, Benjamin, Matthew, Caleb, Eden, Ella and Ava; three great-great-grandchildren: Jordyn, Nolan and Madilyn; sisters Wilma Dorr, Dorothy Fraser, Glennavon Parriott; brother, Willard (Bud) Glade and wife, Wanda of Dows; and numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Walter; grandson Brenton Embree; and one sister, Ione Erickson. Dugger Funeral Home, 100 North Lee Street, Dows, IA.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
January 10, 2013