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Maria Tomes
MARIA TOMES
Anamosa
Maria Tomes, 60, died Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at Anamosa Care Center following a courageous battle with cancer.
A celebration of life service will start at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 12, at Lawrence Community Center in Anamosa (wear pink if you can). Goettsch Funeral Home is serving the family.
Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com
Surviving are the love of her life, Steve Paulsen; two children, Laura Tomes and Alexander (Elizabeth) Tomes; four siblings, Marta McNulty, Mona Vincent, Mark McNulty and Melissa Bland; and her little dog, Max.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Maria Jean McNulty was born Sept. 11, 1955, in Fort Dodge, Iowa, the daughter of Carl and Marilyn Hurley McNulty. She graduated from Fort Dodge Senior High School in 1973. She attended Iowa State and UNI, where she received a degree in home economics and education. She married Richard Tomes in 1981 in Humboldt. She raised her family in the Sioux City area. Richard preceded her in death in 2001.
She had been employed at Family Foods in Anamosa until February 2015, when she became too ill to work. Maria loved to cook, sew and quilt.
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