Services United Church Westside, Iowa 10:30 A.M. - Tuesday, September 12, 2006
Officiant Pastor Virginia Stiles
Organist Janine Kock
Congregational Hymns Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me 490 Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound 299
Pallbearers: John Wolterman, Ryan Wolterman, Jim Wolterman, Randy Anthony, Clint Von Glan, Allen Stribe
Interment Hayes Township Cemetery Westside, Iowa

The family invites everyone to return to the church and join them in fellowship and lunch served by the United Church Women Walter A. Huebner and Family Funeral Service

Mae Ann Meredith died Saturday, September 9, 2006, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll at the age of eighty. Mae Ann Meredith was born in Manning on August 26th, 1926 to John and Anna (Anthony) Ostermeyer. Later she moved with her parents to Westside, Iowa. In 1940, Mae contracted polio and lived in a wheelchair most of her life. She attended Westside School and graduated second in her class in 1945. She worked in her father's mechanics shop as a bookkeeper. She married William Meredith on June 29th, 1960, at the family farm north of Westside where they resided until February of this year, when they moved to the Manilla Manor.

Mae was a loving wife. She enjoyed reading, challenging word games, handiwork, watching the cows in the pasture and trains passing. She collected antiques for over fifty years and ran Windmill Antiques out of her home. In the seventies, Mae and Bill were instrumental in signing up hundreds for Rural Water.

Mae is survived by her husband Bill and cousins, and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents.

I'm occasionally adding the actual scanned image of the obituary I make using my VERY expensive - large commercial scanner, and/or also other articles about the deceased person that were published in the Manning Monitor.
I want to also comment about people who are taking my obituaries, pictures, and/or other articles about a person/family and posting them on other websites.
You do NOT have permission or the right to do this - you are stealing my historical work.
Buy your own scanning equipment, pay for memberships to other commercial websites, and spend decades working on your local history like I have - then you'll understand why I'm making these comments!
Thank you for your attention to this matter - Dave Kusel

October 22, 1942, Manning Monitor