Marjorie M. Grau

MARJORIE GRAU Funeral Service: 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 15, 2004, at Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Visitation: 3 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 14, 2004, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home URBANDALE, Iowa - Marjorie Mae Grau, 86, a life long resident of Muscatine, died Saturday, December 11, 2004, at Bickford Cottage in Urbandale. Reverend Don Kinyon will officiate. Casket Bearers will be David Grau, Brandon Guerra, Kent McDonald, and Alan Risdal. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Alzheimers Foundation. Online condolences for the Grau family may be left at www.wittichfuneralhome.com. Marge was born on January 14, 1918, in Muscatine, the daughter of Fred H. and Della Stineman Bosten. She married Dr. David H. Grau on February 11, 1939, in Washington. Marjorie graduated from Muscatine High School in 1936. She was named President of the Iowa Osteopathic Auxiliary in 1961. She was with her husband in the Grau Osteopathic Hospital from 1939-1948. They then moved to private practice at 503 Iowa Avenue where she was office manager, bo...[more]

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eeper, nurse and full time Mom. Survivors include one son, Frederick C. Grau and wife, Lorie, of Grimes; four grandchildren Kara Ellis of Roland, Amie Guerra and husband Brandon of Peoria, AZ, David Grau and wife Suzy of Gilbert, AZ, and Beth McDonald and husband Kent of Prole; seven great-grandchildren; and longtime friend and companion Nancy Thayer of Muscatine. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dr. David H. Grau in 1977, one son William P. "Bill" Grau in 1966, two sisters Dorothy (Bosten) Kemper and Lucille (Bosten) Hoffman, and one brother Ernest Bosten.