Mattie L. Gifford Obit
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Mattie L. Gifford Obit
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Posted: 9 May 2009 10:09PM GMT |
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MUSCATINE, Iowa -- Mattie L. Gifford, 98, of Muscatine, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000, at Lutheran Homes.
Services will be at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Revs. Prince Swamickan and Robert Ahlstrom. Pallbearers will be Herbert Fickel, Gifford Fickel, Leslie Rizzo, DeAnn Dolan, Dikki Andrews, Sherri Mazzetelli and Stephanie Brand. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery. A luncheon will follow the services in the Community Room at Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home.
Memorials have been established for Lutheran Homes, Foster Providence Baptist Church and Letts United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Gifford was born Jan. 31, 1902, in Drury Township, Rock Island County, Ill., the daughter of John B. and Minnie Spitznogel Bowser. She married Herbert E. Gifford Feb. 9, 1927, in Muscatine.
She attended Browns Business College. She was the oldest member of Foster Providence Baptist Church, but in more recent years she attended Letts United Methodist Church where she was active in United Methodist Women. She enjoyed the Letts Friendly Neighbors Club for many years as well as crocheting and taking pictures for activities at the Village at the former Bethesda Care Center.
Survivors include a son, Merle Gifford and his wife, Mary, of Bettendorf; a daughter, Shirley Hoag and her husband, Ralph, of Letts, Iowa; a daughter-in-law, Betty Gifford of Columbus Junction; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, Claude Gifford and his wife, Helene, of Arlington, Va. and Ledru Braucht of Joy, Ill.; a niece, Betty Steahr and her husband, Charles, of Wilton and one nephew John Russell Vibber of Seattle, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1984; her son, Harvey, in 1998; two brothers, ''Rannie'' Bowser and ''Boney'' Bowser; and three sisters, Mae Vibber, Pearl Feldman and Della Workman.
Services will be at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. The Revs. Prince Swamickan and Robert Ahlstrom. Pallbearers will be Herbert Fickel, Gifford Fickel, Leslie Rizzo, DeAnn Dolan, Dikki Andrews, Sherri Mazzetelli and Stephanie Brand. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery. A luncheon will follow the services in the Community Room at Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home.
Memorials have been established for Lutheran Homes, Foster Providence Baptist Church and Letts United Methodist Church.
Mrs. Gifford was born Jan. 31, 1902, in Drury Township, Rock Island County, Ill., the daughter of John B. and Minnie Spitznogel Bowser. She married Herbert E. Gifford Feb. 9, 1927, in Muscatine.
She attended Browns Business College. She was the oldest member of Foster Providence Baptist Church, but in more recent years she attended Letts United Methodist Church where she was active in United Methodist Women. She enjoyed the Letts Friendly Neighbors Club for many years as well as crocheting and taking pictures for activities at the Village at the former Bethesda Care Center.
Survivors include a son, Merle Gifford and his wife, Mary, of Bettendorf; a daughter, Shirley Hoag and her husband, Ralph, of Letts, Iowa; a daughter-in-law, Betty Gifford of Columbus Junction; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, Claude Gifford and his wife, Helene, of Arlington, Va. and Ledru Braucht of Joy, Ill.; a niece, Betty Steahr and her husband, Charles, of Wilton and one nephew John Russell Vibber of Seattle, Wash.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1984; her son, Harvey, in 1998; two brothers, ''Rannie'' Bowser and ''Boney'' Bowser; and three sisters, Mae Vibber, Pearl Feldman and Della Workman.