Marjorie Killinger

Marjorie Killinger, age 103, of Macedonia, Iowa, passed away on November 13, 2009 at the Countryside Manor Nursing Home in Sioux City, Iowa.

Marjorie Leone Killinger, one of four children of Arthur Clarence "A.C." Lewis and Marie (Coons) Lewis, was born January 30, 1906 on a farm near Macedonia, Iowa. She graduated from Macedonia High School in 1922 and the University of Iowa in 1926. She taught school in Macedonia from 1926 to 1930.

Marjorie and Samuel Scott Killinger II were married on May 24, 1930 in Council Bluffs, Iowa and moved to their Montgomery County farm where she lived for 70 years. Their marriage was blessed with four children, Janice Marie, Edith Marlene, Samuel Scott III, and Nyle Louise.

Marjorie was a member of Phi Mu Sorority, LTD Club, Eastern Star, American Association of University Women, Altrusa and the Montgomery County Historical Society. She was named a Montgomery County Extension Homemaker. She was a District Chairman for Iowa Women's Clubs.

Marjorie and Scott were married 67 years when Scott passed away on March 10, 1998 at the Montgomery County Memorial Hospital in Red Oak, Iowa. Marjorie continued to live in their home until 2000, when she moved to Sioux City where her son Sam lives. She celebrated her 100th birthday in 2006 in Sioux City with family, longtime friends, and neighbors.

Marjorie passed away peacefully on November 13, 2009 at the Countryside Manor Nursing Home in Sioux City and attained the age of 103 years, 9 months, and 13 days. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Scott Killinger; brothers, Glen Lewis and Donald Lewis; and sister Eloise Steiner.

Marjorie is survived by her children, Janice Janus and husband Leonard of Orland Park, Illinois, Marlene Schaefer of Warrenville, Illinois, Sam Killinger and wife Claudia of Sioux City and Nyle Jessen and husband Tom of Iowa City, Iowa; 9 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.

Interment in Buckner Cemetery, rural Henderson, Iowa.