Muriel (Orr) Gaunt Obit d 101/14/1989 Keokuk IA: David E. Orr Jr.
Muriel (Orr) Gaunt Obituary:
Muriel Orr Gaunt, 89, of Keokuk, formerly of Cedar Rapids, died Saturday morning in Keokuk Convalescent Center. Born April 24, 1900, at Peoria, 111., she married Joseph Gaunt Oct. 8,1926, at Detroit. He died in 1950. She was a graduate of Iowa State College. Mr. and Mrs. Gaunt resided at Marengo until 1942, when they moved to Cedar Rapids, where she taught home economics and later worked as a seamstress for All Fabrics Sewing. She retired in 1969 and moved to Keokuk in 1984. Mrs. Gaunt was a member of American Legion Hanford Post 5 Auxiliary and Sigma Kappa sorority and a volunteer for the Grant Wood Chapter of American Red Cross. Surviving is a daughter, Nancy of Keokuk. Services: 11 a.m. today in St. John's Episcopal Church, Keokuk. Burial: 3 p.m. today, Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery, Cedar Rapids. Friends may call until service time at DeJong's Funeral Home, Keokuk., Contributions may be made to St. John's Episcopal Church Memorial Fund.
Cedar Rapids Gazette
October 17, 1989 - Page 10
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Daughter of David E. Orr Jr. & Altie Mae Hall
Grandaughter of David Orr Sr. & Martha Jane McAfee