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Margery Ann Krantz
MARGERY ANN KRANTZ
Cedar Rapids
Margery Ann Krantz, 94, of Cedar Rapids, formerly of Washington, Iowa, died on Sunday, Sept. 5, 2021, at Cottage Grove Place in Cedar Rapids.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Washington, with Pastor Maureen Howard officiating. The family will be present to receive friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the church. Interment will take place at the Elm Grove Cemetery in Washington, Iowa. A general memorial has been established. Online condolences may be sent for Margery's family through the web at www.jonesfh.com.
Margery was born Dec. 25, 1926, in Grinnell, Iowa, the daughter of Verne Fairfield and Sylvia (Sargent) Hannon. She was married to Harry Kenneth Bloomfield on April 30, 1948. The divorced in August of 1977. Margery was united in marriage to Walter William Krantz on June 25, 1988, in Waterloo, Iowa. The couple moved to Washington, Iowa, in August of 1997.
Margery was employed for 24 years as an administrative secretary with the Waterloo Community School District, retiring in 1989. Prior to this she was a secretary with the Hinson Manufacturing Co. in Waterloo.
She is survived by two children, Kenneth Howard Bloomfield and wife Ruta, of Santa Clarita, Calif., and Louise Kay (Bloomfield) Benitez and husband Charlie, of Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; three stepchildren, Cynthia Nunn of Davenport, Iowa, David Krantz and wife Linda, of Washington, Iowa, and Larry Allar and wife, Sue, of Hawaii; 10 grandchildren; nine stepgrandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; 18 step-great-grandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren; and two half-brothers, Tom Hannon and wife Sandy, of Phoenix, Ariz., and John Hannon and wife Mary, of Denver, Colo.
Margery was preceded in death by her parents; stepmother, Ann Wiren Hannon; husband, Walter; one brother, Philip Austin Hannon; two sisters; Sylvia Louise Hannon and Patricia Pieters; two sons, Barry Philip Bloomfield and Kirk Alan Bloomfield; and one stepdaughter, Rita Herman.
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