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Kinsey, Margaret Marie
Margaret Marie Kinsey, 91, of 1020 Rochester Ave., Iowa City, died Monday, June 27, 2011 at Solon Nursing Care Center.
Visitation will be held Thursday from 1 to 2 .m. at Lensing Funeral Service in Iowa City. Services will then follow graveside at 2:30 p.m. at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City.
Memorials may be directed to Iowa City Hospice.
Margaret was born July 27, 1919 in Muscatine, Iowa, the daughter of Clyde and Alice (Pining) Albrecht.
A resident of Iowa City most of her life, Margaret worked for many years at U of I Dining Services, retiring in 1984.
Survivors include her children, Judye J. Trimble (Richard), Arthur Robert Benson, John F. Benson (Mary Jo), Sheila M. Chase, Cindy K. VanDeWalle (Fred) and Jerry L. Chase; sister, Thelma Bowlby; brother, Kenneth Albrecht (Dorothy); 13 grandchildren, 24 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
Margaret was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John Kinsey; brothers, Art, Bob and Clyde Jr.; a sister, Evelyn Farnsworth; and a great-granddaughter, Allie Wenman.
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