OBITUARY: Marilyn Joyce Fry Arhart, 1935-2004, Worth County, Iowa

[Adapted from: Northwood Anchor online - JAN 14, 2004]




                         Marilyn Joyce Arhart

Marilyn Joyce Arhart, 68, of Northwood, Iowa, died Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004,
at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.  Funeral services
were Monday at the Bethel United Methodist Church in Manly, Iowa, with
Rev. Robert Cumings officiating. Burial was in the Memorial Park.

Conner Colonial Chapel, Northwood, was in charge of arrangements.

Marilyn Joyce Arhart was born on Sept. 8, 1935, in Washington, Iowa, the
daughter of Dale and Stella A. (Culver) Fry. She attended and graduated
from Fayette, Iowa High School.

She married Donald D. Arhart on Aug. 23, 1953, at the Little Brown Church
in Nashua. He preceded her in death on July 28, 1991. After their marriage
they moved to Nora Springs and than to Mason City before moving to Northwood
in 1975. After moving to Northwood, Marilyn and Don owned and operated the
Midway Cafe.  Marilyn also worked for the Corner Post Restaurant in
Northwood. She enjoyed cooking, baking, and was especially known for her
pies and cinnamon rolls, and sewing, but her great love and enjoyment was
her family and the customers she served at the cafe.

She was a member of Bethel United Methodist Church in Manly, was a Sunday
school teacher at the church for 30 years, and was also very active in 
other civic and church activities in Northwood and Manly.

Left to cherish her memory are her children, Larry Arhart and his wife
Sandra of Mason City, Stella Marie Odom and her husband Mike of Manly,
Dale Arhart and his wife Karen of Northwood, and Christine Dobbins and
her husband Jimmy of Minneapolis; 10 grandchildren, Christopher and Justin
Arhart, Ole, Mike E., Jeremy, and Jacob Odom, Jeff Anderson, Shawn and
Shamra Williams, and Kiara Dobbins, two great-grandchildren, Nadia
Bahnsen and Dakota Kurtis Anderson; a brother, John Fry and his wife
Betty of Piedmont, South Carolina; as well as other relatives and
friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Donald and a brother,
Kenneth Fry.


   Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson