OBITUARY: Mary Lou (Roessler) Davidson, Worth County, Iowa
[ The Northwood Anchor July 03, 2001 www.northwoodanchor.com ]
Mary Lou (Roessler) Davidson [1936-2001]
Mary Lou Davidson services held Friday
Mary Lou Davidson, 65, of Northwood, died Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at
the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.
Funeral services were Friday at the First Lutheran Church, Northwood,
with Rev. Dan Baker of Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church, rural
Glenville, MN and Rev. Allan Stoa of First Lutheran Church in
Northwood officiating. Burial was in the London Deer Creek Cemetery,
rural Northwood.
The family of Mary Lou Davidson has requested that memorial contributions
be made to the Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church, rural Glenville, MN
or to the First Lutheran Church in Northwood in her memory.
Conner Colonial Chapel of Northwood was in charge of the arrangements.
Mary Lou Davidson was born on April 1, 1936, in St. Paul, MN, the daughter
of Charles and Florence (Peterson) Roessler. The family moved to South
St. Paul in 1940, where she attended school. She graduated from South
St. Paul High School in 1954. Mary Lou was a member of the Luther
Memorial Church where she served as Sunday School accompanist, junior
choir director, Vacation Bible School music director, and substitute
organist. She attended St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, graduating
in 1958, with a B.A. degree in music education. She began her teaching
career in Roseville, MN, teaching elementary and junior high music.
She married Fred Davidson of Northwood, on June 2, 1963. She taught
elementary music in Northwood for one year. In 1980, she resumed her
teaching career until her retirement in 1997.
She was a member of the Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church, rural
Glenville, MN, serving as junior and senior choir director, Sunday
School and Vacation Bible School director, teacher, and music
director, circle and WELCA member and officer. She belongs to
Chapter ES, P.E.O. Sisterhood and Entre Nous Study Club. She
also sang to the First Lutheran senior choir and is a member of
Judith Circle. She was a member of the Worth County Chorus,
serving as an accompanist for many years.
She dearly loved her
family, friends, and students. She enjoyed reading, knitting, and
sharing her music talent at various church, school, and community
events.
Left to cherish her memory are her husband Fred Davidson of Northwood;
her mother, Florence Roessler, of Apple Valley, MN; two sons, Douglas
Davidson and his wife Connie of Schaller, IA, and Ronald and his wife
Michelle, of Northwood, a daughter Ann Davidson of St. Paul, MN;
three grandchildren, Kelsey, Michael, and Katie Davidson of Schaller;
a sister, Barbara Roessler of South St. Paul, MN; and many relatives
and friends.
She was preceded in death by her father, Charles
Roessler, and an infant grandchild, Kyle Davidson.
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