Marilyn Shamblen

Leta Marilyn Shamblen, one of two daughters of Vern Buell Toland and Mildred Grace (Kennedy) Toland, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on March 18, 1931. Marilyn's father died when she was five years old, so she and her sister Myrna and their mother moved to the farm home of their grandparents, Oliver S. and Grace (Braden) Kennedy near Carson, Iowa. Marilyn grew up in Carson and graduated from Carson High School in 1948.
Marilyn and Albert Earl Shamblen were married on January 23, 1949 at the Baptist Church in Corning, Iowa and made their home on a farm near Prescott, Iowa. Their marriage was blessed with sons, Darrell Albert and Dean Philip and daughters Diane Louise, Marlene Renee, and Margie Joyce. Marilyn enjoyed being a mother and farm wife. In 1956, the family moved to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Marilyn worked at the Hinky-Dinky Grocery Warehouse, then for Charles Schneider Furniture Company, and later at the Campbell Soup Company. Marilyn and Albert retired in 1979 and moved to an acreage at Osmond, Nebraska. For a time, she worked at Casey's General Store and the True Value Store in Plainview, Nebraska.
Marilyn and Albert had been married 38 years at the time of Albert's death on August 16, 1987. Marilyn moved to the Malvern Village in Malvern, Iowa on July 3, 1998. She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in rural Hastings, Iowa. Her enjoyments included reading and crocheting.
Marilyn moved to Atkinson, Nebraska in May 2005 to be near her daughter, Marlene. In August 2005, she moved to the Atkinson Good Samaritan Center. Marilyn died at the center on May 19, 2006 at the age of 75 years, 2 months, and one day.
Marilyn was preceded in death by her parents; husband Albert Shamblen; daughter Diane on November 2, 1953 and son Darrell on March 2, 1994.
Marilyn is survived by her daughters, Marlene Olson and husband Ted of Atkinson, NE and Margie Midkiff and George of Glenwood, IA; son Dean Shamblen and his wife Jessica of Pender, NE; sister Myrna Jean Carley and husband Ernest of Carson, IA; eight grandchildren, Sara Mitchell Evans, Andrea Midkiff, Jordan Midkiff, Michele Kimmish, William Kimmish, Joshua Wheeler, Carmella Wheeler and Rose Shamblen.