Mariglee Williams

Mariglee (Bartholomew) Williams 99 of Carlisle, was born on April 2, 1927 to Tressa (Epps) and Grant Bartholomew and died on July 18 after a brief illness

Mariglee was united in marriage to Francis Williams on September 3, 1947. They were married for almost 65 years prior to Frank's passing in 2012. Mariglee and Frank were blessed with 4 children: Franklin, John, Tom and Amy.

She graduated from Carlisle High School in 1944 she then began her career with Northwestern Bell retiring in 1986 as a Switch Design Engineer. After retirement she worked at Des Moines Performing Arts as a dresser for Broadway productions. She also volunteered at her church, Carlisle Baptist and was a member of the Carlisle American Legion Auxiliary.

Mariglee enjoyed baking sourdough bread, watching the Hallmark Channel and Jeopardy, live theater, jigsaw puzzles, hunting morel mushrooms and black raspberries, watching wildlife in her backyard and her annual birthday cribbage tournament. Mariglee also loved to travel and took pride that she visited all fifty states and all of the Great Lakes.

Mariglee was preceded in death by her husband Frank, son Tom, son-in-law Randy McKern, grandson Lucas Palar, her parents and siblings Newton Bartholomew and Avis Wittkowski.

She is survived by her children: Franklin (Shirley), John (DeAnna), Amy McKern, daughter-in-law Mary Jo Williams, sister Joyce Bender, grandchildren: Jennifer Stutsman (Andrew), Jeremy Williams (Aubrey), Bryan Williams, Tommy Williams (Ashley), Danny Williams (Tara), Jeremy Orr, Jackie Padellford (Josh), JP Williams (Blake) , Annie Hockins (Andrew) and Rachel McKern (William) She is also survived by 28 great grandchildren and 3 great-great grandchildren, her Aunt Shirley Burgett, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to the Carlisle Alumni Association or The Carlisle Baptist Church for camp scholarships.

Visitation July 22 from 5-7 at Peterson Funeral Service 415 School St. Carlisle, Iowa.
Graveside service July 23, at 10am at Avon Cemetery.

We would like to thank all who supported us during her illness your kindness was so appreciated.