Obituaries : Marcella Young

Marcella Leota Hupfeld Young, 94, died Thursday morning, December 21, 2017 at her daughter's home in Duluth, Georgia from natural causes. Memorial Services will be held at 11 AM, Friday, January 5, 2018 at the Garrison United Methodist Church in Garrison. Private interment will be in Garrison Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 - 7 PM on Thursday, January 4, 2018 at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel, 212 East 6th Street in Vinton. Phillips Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Marcella "Sal"� was born June 22, 1923 on the family farm in Homer Township, Benton County, near Dysart, Iowa. She is the daughter of William and Rosa Goken Hupfeld; she was their third child of six. She attended a one room country school near her home, Homer #2 in Homer Township near Rogersville. A 1942 graduate of Dysart High School; she was the first in her family to graduate from high school. On June 22, 1943 she was united in marriage to J. Victor "Vic"� Young at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived and farmed their entire marriage in Jackson Township near Garrison, Iowa. Vic preceded her in death on August 3, 1979. Sal was a member of the Garrison United Methodist Church and of the UMW. She and Vic danced at many dance halls in Iowa with Garrison friends in the 1950's and 1960's; they travelled and attended Garrison High School basketball games including every game when the teams went to State Tournament in Des Moines - Sal was always in the bleachers cheering her kids on. Vic and Sal never missed a play at the Old Creamery Theatre in Garrison. A consistent high score bowler, she belonged to the women's Friday afternoon league at Berry's Lane in Vinton for many years. Passionate for genealogy, she was researcher for four family trees and a historian for the city of Garrison, Garrison High School, Old Creamery Theatre Company, and the Garrison United Methodist Church. An avid keeper of many scrapbooks, photograph books, and newspaper articles, she could answer many questions about the past, with the details about the stories. Sal loved her many flower gardens, quilted 48 quilts, looked forward every summer to canning her vegetables and fruit that she grew in her garden and her orchard, and she was infamously known for her baking of cinnamon rolls, bread, pies, and cookies. Sal worked at various places: Green Giant Canning Factory, Garrison Chicken Processing Plant, Benion and Coppock Nursing Home in Vinton, Stage Door Restaurant in Garrison; and retired at the age 70 at the Congregate Senior Center in Vinton. In 2013, Sal moved to Duluth, Georgia to live with her daughter Lois. She is survived by five children; Claudia of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Paul (Nancy) of Lompoc, California, Steven (Kathy) of Garrison, Iowa, Lynnette of Duluth, Georgia, and Lois (Charlie) of Duluth, Georgia. She had ten grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren, and one great-great granddaughter, Mavis Marcella. Also, survived by one sister-in-law and her best friend, Virginia Hupfeld of Dysart, Iowa, brother-in-law Howard Moeller of St. Louis, Missouri, and brother-in-law, Barney Young of Aurora, Iowa. She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her granddaughter Rebecca Young, one brother Ralph, and four sisters and their spouses Arlene Luze, Lucille Glass, Helen Moeller, and Inez Birkcht. Condolences may be left at: www.phillipsfuneralhomes.com.