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Elaine Martens
ELAINE MARTENS
Monticello
Elaine Martens, 95, died Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. at UnityPoint Health-St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, following a brief illness. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church,
Monticello, where friends may call after 9:30 a.m. Interment will be in Badger Hill Cemetery, Gladbrook, at 11 a.m. Friday.
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Surviving are three children, Martha (Larry) Scharff, Monticello, John (Linda) Martens, Ames, and Ann (Stephen) Bennett, Littleton, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, George; and 12 older siblings.
Marguerite Elaine Martens was born Dec. 11, 1919, in Palestine Township, Story County, Iowa, the daughter of Reinert and Martha Larson Holland. Elaine graduated from Kelly, Iowa, schools and completed her education with a home economics degree from Iowa State University in Ames. Elaine married Geoge Nebendahl Martens in 1942 at her sister's home in Ames. George died six years later in 1948.
Elaine taught home economics in Dinsdale before becoming an Iowa State University home economist for 15 years. She then became a dorm mother at Cornell College in Mount Vernon. She was the director at Shesler Hall in Sioux City and then the administrator of the Cookson Home in West Branch until she retired in 1989.
Elaine lived in Estherville and Ames before moving to Monticello in 2010. She had been active in the United Methodist Church and always participated in the quilting and Bible study groups.
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