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Mary Reddick
MARY REDDICK
Iowa City
Mary Graf Reddick, 96, lifelong resident of Iowa City, died Monday, Jan. 12, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 19, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. Burial will take place following services in the Old Section of St. Joseph Cemetery in Iowa City.
Memorial donations can be made in her memory to St. Mary's Catholic Church in Iowa City.
Online condolences may be sent for her family through the Web at www.gayandciha.com.
Mary K. Villhauer was born June 21, 1918, in Iowa City, the daughter of William and Katherine T. (Reese) Villhauer. She attended schools at St. Mary's where she graduated from high school. She married William A. Graf on May 1, 1941, in Iowa City. For a number of years, she worked at the J.C. Penney store downtown. After her husband retired, she and Bill started Wm. A. Graf books, a mail order catalog business selling books all over the world. Bill Graf died Dec. 16, 1995. Mary married William L. Reddick on Sept. 5, 2002, in Memphis, Mo. The couple continued to make their home in Iowa City.
Her family includes her husband, William "Bill;" sisters, Dorothy Belger of Solon and Phyllis Jedlicka (Paul) of Iowa City; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, William A. Graf; brother, William Villhauer; and sisters, Cecelia Wellman, Lucille Thomas, Helen Delsing and Lois Michel.
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