July 2, 1997

Clear Lake (Iowa) Mirror Reporter obituaries

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Mabel Irene Van Hoosen Merwin

Mrs. Mabel Irene Van Hoosen Merwin, 85, of Clear Lake, died Monday, June 30, 1997 at her home.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, July 3, at 1:30 p.m. at the Evangelical Free Church with the Rev. Tim Merwin and Rev. David French of First Assembly of God Church in Mason City officiating. Interment will be in the Grant Center Cemetery. Visitation will begin after 4 p.m. Wednesday, July 2 at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake. The family suggests memorials in her name. Mabel was born on a farm north of Ventura Jan. 1, 1912 to Abe and Louise Van Hoosen. She graduated from Fertile High School in 1930. She then attended teacher's college in Cedar Falls. She taught in Grant, Lincoln and Lime Creek rural schools until she married Arthur Dale Merwin on June 24, 1939, and lived in Clear Lake since that time.

She gave her heart to Jesus on Aug. 22, 1933. She loved teaching Sunday School Children's Church being a guide in Christian Women's Club besides volunteer work at the Clear Lake Care Center. Her hobbies were knitting and crocheting She is survived by her husband, Art Merwin, Clear Lake; daughters, Marilyn and her husband, Eugene Jackson, Greensburg, Ind., Glenys and her husband, Al Schloemer and Phyllis and her husband, Robert, all of Mason City; one son, Larry Merwin and his wife Hilda, Satellite Beach, Fla.; two sisters, Vera and her husband, Spence Abrams Sr., Clear Lake and Etta Mae Conroy, Garner, Iowa; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and a son-in-law, Edgar Randolph.