Eggers, Marilyn

Marilyn Eggers, 79, died Friday, Nov. 29, 2013, at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral Services will be 2:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 2, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where friends may call after 1 p.m. The Rev. Laurie Riley will officiate at the services.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving are four children, Connie Folken, Cedar Rapids, David Eggers and his friend Elise, Langworthy, Mary (Mike) Hospadarsky, Marion, and Todd Eggers, Monticello; two grandsons, Ben Folken and Dillon Eggers; and three sisters, Vivian Hay-Moran, Paradise, Calif., Maxine Von Spreecken, Anamosa, and Carol Matthews, Miami, Fla.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant son, Richard Harold; her husband, Harold in 1969; and a stepbrother, James Holmes.

Marilyn Lorraine Calloway was born June 18, 1934, in Monmouth, Iowa, the daughter of Leonard and Mara Shirk Calloway. Marilyn attended the Sutton Grade School and she graduated valedictorian of the class of 1952 from the Onslow Community School. She married Harold Eggers on June 20, 1953, at the United Methodist Church, Anamosa. Marilyn was employed as an operator at Northwestern Bell in Anamosa and later in Cedar Rapids. From 1971 until 1974, she was also employed at City National Bank in Cedar Rapids. Marilyn started working for the Iowa Liquor Commission in 1974 and was store manager from 1976 until 1987 in Monticello. She retired after working at Phar-Mor in Marion in the liquor department.

Marilyn had been a member of the Anamosa Hospital Auxiliary and helped to campaign for the new hospital. She had also belonged to Wapsi Country Club and Epsilon Mothers Club. She also enjoyed playing bridge, golfing and bowling.

Published Dec. 1, 2013 in The Gazette