King County WA Archives Obituaries.....Varner, Carrie Mae June 26, 2009
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Midland Times, July 2, 2009
Midland Times, July 2, 2009 

Carrie Mae Varner, October 27,1913 - June 26, 2009 

Carrie Mae Varner, age 95, of Baldwin, Iowa, died on Friday morning, June 
6,2009, at the Jackson County Regional Health Center after suffering a stroke 
in early January of this year. A private burial will be held from the Buckhorn 
Cemetery, rural Maquoketa, Iowa. In honoring her request no public services or 
visitation will be held. The Carson & Son Funeral And Cremation Services in 
Maquoketa is in charge of the arrangements. Carrie Mae Arterberry was born on 
October 27,1913, in Clinton County, Iowa, to Thomas "Tom" and Mary Mane 
(Merrick) Arterberry. As she grew up, she helped her mother deliver her three 
brothers as well as others, in her adult life. The family would migrate from 
Iowa to Oklahoma working the fields of crops, and back again to Iowa where 
they lived in Jackson County, Iowa. Carrie Mae married Arthur "Art" Burnett 
Varner on February 6, 1929. Carrie Mae and Art had only one child, a daughter, 
named Betty Lou, born May 31, 1930, in Clinton, Iowa. Betty Lou married Carl 
E. Massey, Sr. on November 8,1947 in Camanche. They had six grandchildren for 
Carrie Mae and Art. In 1961 Carl and Betty Lou moved those grandchildren to 
the state of Washington and Art and Carrie moved to Washington on a few 
occasions to be near their daughter and grandchildren, always returning to 
Jackson County, whether in Maquoketa or Baldwin. Carrie Mae loved her family 
and friends. She loved anning food, baking bread and cooking. She loved to 
garden, whether it was a flower garden or food garden. She loved to watch old 
westerns and The Price Is Right. She loved Bluegrass Music, Willie Nelson, 
whom she called "Pee Wee" Nelson. She also loved to fish. She loved her 
popcorn. She had many friends and neighbors who would look in on her, now and 
then, and that was appreciated since her grandchildren lived far away. Her 
grandchildren would like to thank all of those who were there for her. In 
1979, she lost her daughter, Betty Lou, who died in Washington State on March 
20, 1979. Carrie did her best to fill in for her daughter as 
mother/grandmother to those six grandchildren She did a very good job in doing 
that. In 1992, she lost her husband, Arthur and in 1994 she moved to 
Washington state to be near the grown grandchildren and her great-
grandchildren. In 1996, she moved back to Iowa because the weather was too 
damp for her in Washington state. She wanted to be buried in Iowa, next to her 
husband of 63 years. Surviving are a brother, Edgar Lee Hill of Clinton, LA; 
six grandchildren- Carl E. "Gene" (Mary Ellen) Massey, Jr., of Lynnwood, WA, 
Mrs. Marlene Kay (Ed) Zilch, Sr., of Shawano, WI, Donna Mae (Fred) Henifin, of 
Vancouver, WA, Mary Lou (Allen) Miller, Sr, of Darrington, WA, Michael J 
Massey of Kirkland, WA, Russell R. (Faith) Massey of Snohomish, WA She has 
many greatgrandchildren and a few great-great grandchildren. She was preceded 
in death by her parents, Tom Arterberry and Mary Mane (Merrick) Arterberry-
Hill, two brothers, Winford L. Arterberry and Willard Arterberry. 



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