Marlys A. Ard

Born in Crookston, Minnesota on July 8, 1932
Departed on September 6, 2009. Resided in Rural Springville, Iowa.

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Marlys A. Ard, 77, of 751 Paralta Rd, Springville, died Sunday, September 6, 2009, in St. Luke’s Hospital. Services will be held at 11 am Thursday in St. Andrew Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids with Rev. T. Edwards Breed officiating. Burial in Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 PM Wednesday at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home with a prayer service beginning at 8 PM.

Survivors include her husband Dean, two sons Terry (Becky) of Mt. Vernon, and David of Cedar Rapids, her siblings, Gladys (Eugene) Wagner of Fisher, Minnesota, Laurain Jurchen of Crookston, Minnesota, Irene (Terry) Schneider of Marshfield, Wisconsin, Erwin (Marcie) Jurchen of Seward, Nebraska, Esther Jurchen of Ypsilanti, Michigan, and Arnold (Tamra) Jurchen of Beaver Creek, Nebraska, and five grandchildren, Joe, Sonya, Andrea, Dennis, and Bailee. She was preceded in death by her parents.

Marlys was born July 8, 1932, in Crookston, Minnesota, to Willie and Alicia Hoppe Jurchen. She married Dean E. Ard on September 4, 1954 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was employed by AT & T as an operator and in the business office. She was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church, and the Telephone Pioneers.

In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established.

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