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Marjorie J. Winter

December 21, 1922 — April 2, 2018

Marjorie J. Winter was born in her grandparents’ home in Pottawattamie County, 6 miles north of the Winter farm in Mills Co. which grandpa Winter bought in 1902. Her parents were Henry and Martha (Frohardt) Winter. She grew up in a brick house that was built in 1868 and had no electricity, it still stands today. A new house was built in 1964 which had electricity.

Marjorie and her brother Glenn graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1941. She attended UNO for two years and taught public school near Mineola, Iowa from 1943-1946, Kokomo school in Colorado from 1951-1952, a school in Twin Lakes, Colorado from 1957-1962, Pitts Elementary School in Leadville, Colorado from 1962-1974.

Marjorie did missionary work starting Sunday school and teaching Bible classes in small towns and rural areas in the Colorado Rocky Mountains for 9 years and did some substitute teaching in schools when needed. Marjorie came back to Iowa when her parents needed her and worked in the library at Grace University from 1974-1983 in Omaha, Nebraska.

She was preceded in death by her father in 1980, mother in 2000, and her brother Glenn in 1963. Marjorie is survived by her cousins and many friends.
Funeral services will be held on Friday at 10:30 at the Hoy Kilnoski Funeral Home. Interment is in the Walnut Hill Cemetery.
Memorials may be given to Southview Bible Church in Council Bluffs.

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Funeral Service

Friday, April 6, 2018

Starts at 10:30 am (Central time)

Hoy-Kilnoski Funeral Home and Crematory

1221 North 16th Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51501-0143

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