Garmon, Margaret Evelyn

Margaret Evelyn Garmon, 81, of Tipton, died Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, at the Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehab Center. Services: 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Fry Funeral Home, Tipton, with the Rev. Richard Smith officiating. Burial: Tipton Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.

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Margaret Evelyn Thurston Garmon, daughter of Samuel Hubert and Leona Alice Wagner Thurston, was born May 7, 1928, in Tipton, Iowa. She was a 1946 graduate of Tipton High School. Margaret was united in marriage to Alva J. Garmon on April 1, 1947, at the Methodist Parsonage in Tipton. She worked as a waitress and was a homemaker. Margaret enjoyed 14 winters in Alamo, Texas, as a snowbird.

Margaret is survived by her husband, Alva Garmon of Tipton; daughter, Nancy (Darel) Bruhn of New Liberty; grandchildren, Ryan Goethals and Rhonda Wadsworth; great-grandchildren, Taylor Goethals Hale, Jared Goethals and Levi and Mackenzie Wadsworth; sisters, Marie Aegerter of Ratcliff, Ark., Velma Mae Robinson of Stanwood, Joanne (Bud) Daufeldt of Tipton, and Glades (Don) Simmons of Tipton; brothers, Daniel H. (Pam) Thurston of Battle Creek, Mich., and Rudy P. (Marilyn) Thurston of Tipton.

She was preceded in death by her parents; daughter, Sonja “Stones” Garmon; sister, Violet Wiskus; and brothers, Samuel and Jerry Thurston.