Myrtle Lena Warren

Myrtle Lena Warren, one of four children of John William and Sarah Ellen (Moiser) Baker, was born near Winnipeg, Missouri on March 16, 1918. Myrtle and her family grew up near Winnipeg, Falcon and Lebanon, Missouri. Myrtle attended country schools through the tenth grade. Following school, she worked for area farm families.
On December 24, 1937, Myrtle and John Arthur Warren were united in marriage. They started their married life together in Missouri and later moved to Iowa in 1942 where they resided in the rural Oakland and Carson area. Their marriage was blessed with four children, Jerry, Wanda, Connie and Kathy.
Myrtle loved being a mother and homemaker. She enjoyed flower and vegetable gardening, caring for houseplants and working in the yard. She also loved sewing, quilting and traveling back to Missouri to visit friends, family and former homes.
John and Myrtle raised three grandsons, Gerald, Ronald and John through their high school years. In 1986, after the death of her husband John, Myrtle remained in their home until August 26, 2005, when she moved to the Oakland Manor.
Myrtle passed away on June 5, 2007 at the age of 89 years, 2 months, and 19 days. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; daughter Kathy (Warren) Elliott; great granddaughter Shaye Roberson; sister Jennie (Baker) Sailing and brother William Baker.
Myrtle is survived by her children Jerry Warren and his wife, Shirley, of Council Bluffs, IA, Wanda Sargent and her husband John, of Grand Island, NE., and Connie Callahan and her husband Keith, of Stanfield, AZ; sister Mollie Johnson of Holland, MI; seventeen grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren.