Marcella Lorraine Erwin

Marcella Erwin WAPELLO, Iowa #45;- Marcella Lorraine Erwin, 92, rural Wapello, died Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2003, at her home after a brief illness. Services are 10 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 3, 2004, at the First Presbyterian Church, Wapello. The Rev. Mary N. Pugh will officiate. Burial will be at Edwards Cemetery, Oakville. Visitation is 6:30-8 p.m. today at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home, Wapello. A memorial fund has been established. Mrs. Erwin was born June 28, 1911, in Oakville, the daughter of Seth Everett and Johanna Edith Wykoff Gates. She married Samuel Robert Erwin May 13, 1933, in Kahoka, Mo. She graduated from Oakville High School in 1928. She graduated from Western Illinois Teachers College in 1932 with degrees in math and Latin. After her marriage, she and her husband farmed east of Wapello. Later in her life she moved to Wapello. She had owned and operated the Dairy Bar, both in Wapello and Mediapolis, and later the Hiway Pantry, Wapello. Then for more than 25 years she was the Louisa County Head Start coordinator, retiring at age 86. In her retirement, she lived in her cottage near the home of her daughter, Martha. She was an avid reader and enjoyed her f...[more]

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nds and family. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Wapello; the former Order of Eastern Star Chapter 257, Wapello, and currently the Emma Beckman Chapter 445 of the Order of Eastern Star, Columbus City; the Wapello Study Club; and the Chapter ET of P.E.O., Wapello. Survivors include two daughters, Martha Lorraine and Robert Hawk and Mary Edith Boysen and husband Larry, all of rural Wapello; six grandchildren, Aaron Boysen and wife Bambi, Duane Boysen and wife Jodi, Adam Boysen, Kedra Kroeger and husband Jeffrey and Jenna Hawk, all living locally, and Justin Hawk of Forrest Ranch, Calif.; and 12 great-grandchildren, Adair, Bay, Larame, Tate, Kale, Koby, Kabe and Sydney Boysen and Emma, Seth, Don and Megan Kroeger. She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Lillian Charbonneaux and Euvista Masterson.