Margie D. Ballard, age 80, died of pancreatic cancer, Monday, December 24, 2007 at Rose Haven Nursing Home, Marengo, three years and three days following her husband Bob’s death. Mass of Christian Burial: 10:00 A.M. Thursday, December 27, 2007, St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Marengo with Fr. Joseph Roost officiating. Burial will be at St. Patrick and St. Paul Cemetery, Watkins. Friends may call from 4 to 7 P.M. Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo where there will be a Scripture Service at 7 P.M. A memorial fund has been established.

She is survived by three sons, Robert Jr., and Pat of Cedar Rapids, Dennis and wife Shirley of Amana, and Bruce and wife Cindy of Marengo; seven grandchildren, Terri Ballard, Kelly Sander, Stacy Swanson, Jay Irving, Denny Ballard, Laura Ballard, and Brent Bral; 10 great grandchildren: Blake, Austyn, Jaxon, Alex, Brynn, Nolan, Brayden, Easton, Shaylynn and Colton. In addition she is survived by five brothers, Wayne Grimm of Central City, Lloyd “Dick”, Bennie, Ronald and Delbert Grimm all of Cedar Rapids; and a sister, Beverly Ballard also of Cedar Rapids. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Robert Ballard on December 21, 2004; a daughter, Barbara Ann in 1964 and two brothers, Ernest “Jack” and Glenn Grimm.

Margie Darlene Grimm was born May 25, 1927 in Keystone, Iowa, the daughter of Harold and Edith Guingrich Grimm. She attended Big Grove Township school in Van Horne and married Robert Eugene Ballard on January 17, 1944 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Marengo. The couple resided in Iowa County. Margie was a housewife and also worked in the Amana area for 30 years. She was a member of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, the Altar and Rosary Society and the Busy Bee Club.

The Ballard family wishes to extend their thanks to Rose Haven Nursing Home and Amenity Hospice for the care that they provided to our mother.