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Services for Marjorie Marie (Morris) Reynolds of Lenox, who went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sunday, will be held on Saturday, February 7th, at 10:30 am at the First United Methodist Church in Lenox, IA. Interment will be held at Parkinson Cemetery in Lenox. Visitation will be held on Friday, February 6th at Ritchie Funeral Home in Lenox from 3:00-7:00pm, family 5:00-7:00pm. Memories may be shared with the family at www.ritchiefuneralhome.com under obituaries. Arrangements were entrusted to the Ritchie Funeral Homes.
Marjorie Marie Morris, daughter of Claude (C.J.) James Morris and Helen Elizabeth (Butler) Morris was born on August 7, 1923 in Kent, Iowa. She married the love of her life Darrell Reynolds on August 23, 1942. On November 9, 1947, Darrell and Marjorie had twin daughters, Connie and Kathie.
Marjorie, a school teacher, taught children of all ages at Grant and Platte rural schools from 1941 until 1944, fourth grade at Clearfield Public Schools from 1956 until 1961, and fifth and sixth grade at Lenox Community School from 1961 to 1986. In addition to full-time teaching and raising a family, she continued her education and received her bachelor’s degree in education in 1964 from Northwest Missouri State College at Maryville. Her dedication to her work and students was displayed when her math students won the Iowa State Math Contest in 1980. She possessed a great sense of humor and was a very quick-witted, fun-loving person, who loved joking with students and made learning fun. Marjorie retired after 40 years of teaching.
She was a member of the Lenox Methodist Church, Womens’ Circle, Order of the Eastern Star where she was Worthy Matron and a grand officer, NEA, The UAC (Up and Coming) card club, two bridge clubs, and the American Legion Auxiliary.
Left to cherish her memory are her twin daughters, Connie Comes and her husband Jim of Atlantic, and Kathie Kolosick and her husband Stu of Norfolk, Nebraska; seven grandchildren Chad Comes and his wife Tresa, Kelli Welvaert, Kara Baumert and her husband Corey, Drew Comes and his wife Kim, Kayleen Brewer and her husband Dr. Jeff Brewer, Daniel Comes and his wife Jenna, and Elizabeth Babcock and her husband Dr. Abram Babcock; fourteen great-grandchildren Nora Welvaert, Tyler Comes, Nicole Welvaert, Dylan Comes, Brynn Baumert, Kennedy Baumert, Lola Comes, Lauren Comes, Tristan Brewer, Emerson Baumert, Claire Comes, Regan Babcock, Miles Babcock, Leighton Baumert, and brother Robert Morris and his wife Verna and sister-in-law Helen Jean Morris, many nieces and nephews, relatives and friends.
Marjorie was preceded in death by her parents Claude (C.J.) and Helen Butler Morris, her husband for almost 67 years Darrell, her brothers Kenneth Morris, and Hal Dean Morris and his wife Florabelle (Pat) Morris; her father-in-law and mother-in-law Perry James Reynolds and Nora Elizabeth (Mason) Reynolds, her sisters-in law Evah Kerr Hagie and husbands, Nina Agnew and husband Floyd, Ruby Agnew and husband Darley, Ruth Carter Adams and husbands, and Imogene Miller and husband Glen; and brothers-in-law Everett Reynolds and wife Myrtle, Horatio Reynolds and wife Gladys, Herbert Reynolds and wife Marybelle, Woodrow Reynolds Florence, and Francis Reynolds and wife Ruth and nephews Jack Carter, Fred Reynolds, and Jim Agnew and niece Phyllis Fischer.