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Marie M. Turgasen

1917 - 1999

 
Marie Turgasen, 81

Marie M. Turgasen, 81, of Solon, died Thursday, March 4, 1999, at the Solon Nursing Care Center in Solon after a short illness.

Graveside services will begin at 1 p.m. today at the Ell Township Cemetery in Klemme. Memorials may be made to the Solon Nursing Care Center or Sierra Club. Lensing Funeral & Cremation Service is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Turgasen was born Sept. 9, 1917, in Klemme to John and Otilla (Koerner) Stille. She married Donald Turgasen on Jan. 3, 1942, in Klemme. She taught English and American History in the schools of Woden-Crystal Lake, Wapello and Malcom. She was head of the department of social studies at Independence High School.

Survivors include one son and his wife, John and Mary Beth Turgasen of Iowa City; one daughter-in-law, Shirley Turgasen of Independence, and five grandchildren, Jeremy, Micheal, Joshua, Amanda and Sarah.

Her husband and one son, Brian, died earlier.



source: Press Citizen, Iowa City, Iowa 6 Mar 1999, page 4A, column 2
 

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Marie Martha Stille Turgasen: born 9 Sep 1917, Hancock County, Iowa - died 4 Mar 1999, Solon, Johnson County, Iowa

Grave marker at Calvary Cemetery, Klemme, Hancock County, Iowa - Block 5, Lot 78

Daughter of John E Stille, born 1877 - died 1969 and Ottilia L Koerner, born 1877 - died
1958
 
Wife of: Donald Oliver Turgasen, born 1910 - died 1975
 
Sister of:
Ethel Irene Stille (1904–1906)
Reuben William Stille (1907–1908)
Burnette Curtis Stille (1909–1910)
 
 
source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 113953840

 

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