Edith Powles

Edith Pearl Powles, one of five children of Charles Royce and Nellie Pearl (Martin) Brewer, was born May 20, 1921 on FairAcres Farm in Fremont County near Tabor, Iowa. Edith's family lived in Tabor and Sidney before moving to Malvern, Iowa in 1932. Edith graduated from the Malvern Community School in 1938. Following school, Edith worked as a receptionist and bookkeeper for Drs. D.M. and John Kline before her marriage to Lentz Woodrow Powles. They were married on February 4, 1942 at the home of Edith's parents in Malvern. After their marriage, they farmed in the Emerson and Stanton, Iowa area. They were blessed with three children, Carol Ann, Roger Woodrow and Rodney Lentz. Their daughter Carol died in 1954. The family moved to a farm north of Malvern in 1956, and a year later, they moved into Malvern where Lentz went into the insurance business with C. R. Brewer. Edith worked as a nurse's aid at the Nishna Cottage for five years and in 1962 was a clerk in the office at the Soil Conservation Service and later at the ASCS Office in Malvern. In 1974, Edith became the bookkeeper for Goy Oil Co. and later it became Dinklage Oil. Edith and Lentz had been married 39 years at the time of Lentz's death on August 11, 1981. Edith continued to work at Dinklage Oil until her retirement in May of 2000.
Edith was a member of the United Methodist Church. She loved her family and attending her grandchildren's games and activities. In 1999, she received the Malvern Booster Club Fan of the Year Award. Among her other enjoyments were homemaking, sewing, quilting, embroidery and crafts.
Edith died on January 9, 2006 at Jennie Edmundson Hospital in Council Bluffs at the age of 84 years, 7 months, and 19 days. She was preceded in death by her daughter Carol Ann Powles; parents C. R. and Pearl Brewer; husband Lentz Powles; grandson Andy Powles; brother Charles Brewer; and brothers-in-law Robert Bingham, Shorty Powles and Charles Vogt.
Edith is survived by her sons Roger Powles and wife Carol and Rodney Powles all of Malvern; grandchildren Amie Wilson and husband Kyle and their children Miranda, Emilie, and John of West Des Moines, IA, Lantz Powles of Omaha, NE, Nate Powles of Glenwood, IA and fiancA(c)e Marcy McCollester of Council Bluffs, IA, Kurt Powles and wife Lindsey and son Wade of Weeping Water, NE, Lisa Powles of UNI at Cedar Falls and Mary Powles of Malvern; sisters Frances Vogt of Neola, IA, Mary Bingham of Arvada, CO, and Barbara Mickelson and husband Theron of Malvern; sister-in-law Mildred Powles of Enterprise, AL; other relatives and friends.