Marilyn "Jody" Twaddle

Eastern Star services will be held Saturday afternoon, December 4, 2004 at 3:00 P.M. at the Mansfield-Hertz Funeral Home in Malvern. The Emerson Chapter of the Order of Eastern Star will be in charge of the services.

Marilyn Joan Twaddle, one of two children of Anna Fern McLaughlin and Bernard Read, was born in Nodaway, Iowa on June 14, 1923. On May 11, 1941, Jody and Donald Twaddle were married at Rock Port, Missouri. They made their first home on a farm near Emerson, Iowa and were blessed with three sons, Kenneth, Donald, and Kyle. In 1956, the family moved into Emerson.
Jody enjoyed her role as a mother and working with other children. She helped with the Methodist Youth Fellowship and youth choir in Hastings, Iowa, and was a Mother Advisor to the Glenwood Rainbow Girls, which involved five area communities. Jody later helped start the Emerson Chapter of the Rainbow Girls and was installed as the Grand Chapter Committee Person for the Order. She was a fifty-year member of the Order of Eastern Star and Past Worthy Matron. Jody enjoyed teaching and was a certified Montessori pre-school teacher at the Glenwood State Hospital School. In later years, Jody's love was her small dog, T.D. Darlin, whom she cared for dearly.
Jody died at the Villisca Good Samaritan Center in Villisca, Iowa on November 25, 2004 at the age of 81 years, 5 months, and 11 days. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Donald Twaddle, son Kyle Twaddle, grandson Todd Twaddle, great granddaughter Genesis Abeyta, and brother Kenneth "Kick" Read.
Jody is survived by her sons, Kenneth Twaddle of Denver, Colorado and Donald Twaddle of Minneapolis, Minnesota; six grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.