MUSCATINE, Iowa - Marie Gamble, 85, formerly of 1104 Sycamore St., died Friday, Feb. 16, 2001, at the Muscatine Sterling House.

A Memorial service will be at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Rev. Mike Trail will officiate. A private committal will be held at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to the Muscatine Community Y.

Mrs. Gamble was born on Oct. 18, 1915, in Muscatine, the daughter of Arthur J. and Dorothea M. Blaesing Lindley. She was a 1934 graduate of Muscatine High School. She married Donald H. Gamble on Dec. 31, 1937, in Muscatine.

She worked with her husband at Gamble's Clothing Store.

She did volunteer work at Lutheran Homes and for Meals on Wheels. She loved her family and enjoyed her flower garden and was a member of the Muscatine Garden Club.

Survivors include a daughter, Carol M. Yeater of New Brighton, Minn., two grandchildren, Gregory D. Yeater of Eden Prairie, Minn. and Janie M. Yeater and her friend, Peter Myers, of Minneapolis, Minn., one sister, Lucille Berger, of Omaha, Nebraska, and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Donald, in 1989, and one brother, Dr. E. L. Lindley.