Mary L. McGinnis

Mary McGinnis FAIRFAX, Iowa #45;- Mary L. McGinnis, 59, of 7305 Selzer Road, Fairfax, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, after a brief illness. Services were 11:30 a.m. today at St. Matthew's Catholic Church. The Rev. Mark Osterhaus officiate. Burial will be at Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. A memorial fund has been established. A message, tribute or memorial to the McGinnis family may be left at www.cedarmemorial.com under obituaries. Mrs. McGinnis was born on April 5, 1943, in Fort Dodge, the daughter of Ernest and Edna Orwig Breon. She married Tom McGinnis on Dec. 28, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nev. She graduated from Crestland High School in Early and the Omaha Business College in Omaha, Neb. She had been office manager for Dr. Robert Wessner in Iowa City up to the time of her illness. She was a member of the St. Matthew's Catholic Church, the Hawkeye Champ's Camping Club and the Cedar Rapids Model A Club. Survivors include her husband; children, Christina Engstran and her husband, Steven, of White Bear Lake, Minn., Jacqueline Nelson-Norris and her h...[more]

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and, Jeffrey, of Alexandria, Va., Scott Nelson and his wife, Denise, of Iowa City, Randy Mittman and Kimberly McGinnis, both of Cedar Rapids; her parents, Ernest and Edna Breon of Muscatine; brothers, David Breon and his wife, Mary, of Wapello, James Breon and his wife, Mary, of Preston, Minn., Michael Breon and his wife, Sheila, of Overland Park, Kan., Eugene Breon and his wife, Marsha, of Las Vegas and Richard Breon and his wife, Margaret, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; sisters, Ruth Henrich and his husband, Ed, of Oceola and Elaine Pitt and husband 'Bud' of Brighton; five grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by a brother, Dennis and a sister, Darlene.