BRINDLE, Mary G. 1924-2002

BRINDLE, CLAYBROOK, ROWEN, WARDEN, LAWLER, SMITH, HERYFORD

Posted By: Jeffrey R. Phillips (email)
Date: 1/13/2005 at 22:19:43

Mary G. Brindle
By: 05/15/2002

February 5, 1924-May 12, 2002

BELMOND-Mary G. Brindle, 78, of Belmond, formerly of Union and Osage, died Sunday, May 12, 2002, at the Belmond Medical Center. Funeral services will be held Wednesday, May 15, at 1:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist church in Union, with the Revs. Roger Crawford and John Murray, officiating. Interment will be at Union Cemetery, Union. A memorial fund has been established in her name.

Mary was born Feb. 5, 1924, in Hardin County to Burl and Mable Claybrook Rowen. She was raised and educated in the Union-Whitten area and graduated from the Whitten High School in 1942. Following graduation, she attended beauty school in Des Moines and Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls. She was married to George Arthur Brindle on Feb. 20, 1949, in Union, and they farmed in the Union-Whitten area. Mary owned and operated the O.K. Cafe in Union from 1970-1972. Following the death of her husband in 1975, she was employed by the Marshall County Care Facility until her retirement in 1986. She later moved to Osage and then to Belmond in 2000. Mary was a member of the First Baptist Church in Osage, the Ann Judson Circle, Hubbard American Legion Auxiliary, the Shepherd Community Club and had been attending the First Baptist Church in Belmond.

Survivors include two sons, Charles and his wife Cheryl of Belmond, and Duane of Missouri Valley; two daughters, Diane Warden and Janine Lawler, both of Union; a sister, Myrna Smith of Union; a brother, Paul Rowen of Union; 15 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; three brothers, Robert, William, and Pete; two sisters, Opal Rowen, and Hazel Heryford.

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