1922
Martha
2012
Martha Archer
July 9, 1922 — July 26, 2012
Martha Nowasell Archer, 90 of Indianola, Iowa, formerly Eldora, Iowa, died following a major stroke on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at the Good Samaritan Society in Indianola. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, July 30, 2012, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Eldora with Pastor David Splett officiating. Visitation will be from 9 to 10 a.m.at the church prior to the funeral. Burial will be at Eastlawn Memory Garden in Eldora. Creps-Abels Funeral Home in Eldora is in charge of the arrangements and online condolences may be made at www.abelsfuneralhomes.com.
Martha was born July 9, 1922 in Cleveland, OH, the eldest child of Isadore and Christine Wolff Nowasell. After moving to Iowa with her family in 1928, she grew up in Eldora and attended the Eldora Schools. During World War II she worked at the former Iowa Packing Plant in Des Moines, afterward marrying Blaine C. Archer of Des Moines in 1946. Following the untimely death of her husband from injuries received in the crash of the small airplane he was piloting, Martha worked for several years in Des Moines and Minneapolis before moving to New York City in 1953, where she was employed in a print shop on Long Island. Upon retirement in 1987 she returned to Eldora to live until suffering several strokes in January of 2006. Shortly afterward she became a resident of the Good Samaritan Center, though she remained a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, where in prior years she had participated in various Lutheran Ladies Circle activities. An accomplished ballroom dancer with several awards to her credit, she enjoyed that lifelong hobby right up to the time of her first strokes.
Martha is survived by two sisters, Ida Nielsen of Whitefish, MT, and Phyllis (William) Laughlin of Boulder, CO, three brothers, Arthur of Springfield, MO, Alfred (Opal) of Paola, KS, and Frank of Indianola, as well as many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her husband, Blaine; her parents; and a brother, William. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1105 Washington Ave., Eldora, IA 50627, or Hospice of Central Iowa, 213 East Main Street, Ste. 103, Knoxville, IA 50138-2526.
Martha was born July 9, 1922 in Cleveland, OH, the eldest child of Isadore and Christine Wolff Nowasell. After moving to Iowa with her family in 1928, she grew up in Eldora and attended the Eldora Schools. During World War II she worked at the former Iowa Packing Plant in Des Moines, afterward marrying Blaine C. Archer of Des Moines in 1946. Following the untimely death of her husband from injuries received in the crash of the small airplane he was piloting, Martha worked for several years in Des Moines and Minneapolis before moving to New York City in 1953, where she was employed in a print shop on Long Island. Upon retirement in 1987 she returned to Eldora to live until suffering several strokes in January of 2006. Shortly afterward she became a resident of the Good Samaritan Center, though she remained a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, where in prior years she had participated in various Lutheran Ladies Circle activities. An accomplished ballroom dancer with several awards to her credit, she enjoyed that lifelong hobby right up to the time of her first strokes.
Martha is survived by two sisters, Ida Nielsen of Whitefish, MT, and Phyllis (William) Laughlin of Boulder, CO, three brothers, Arthur of Springfield, MO, Alfred (Opal) of Paola, KS, and Frank of Indianola, as well as many nephews and nieces. She was preceded in death by her husband, Blaine; her parents; and a brother, William. In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to St. Paul Lutheran Church, 1105 Washington Ave., Eldora, IA 50627, or Hospice of Central Iowa, 213 East Main Street, Ste. 103, Knoxville, IA 50138-2526.
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