Alldredge, Marlys (Pitts) dod: 5-16-2021

ALLDREDGE, PITTS, LINNEMANN, MCDERMOTT, KENNEDY, WESTPHAL, GOOSSEN, LANDERS

Posted By: county coordinator (email)
Date: 11/24/2024 at 15:43:07

Age 85, resident of Cherokee, IA, passed away Sunday, May 16, 2021, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee. Memorial services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 24, 2021, at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee. Burial will be at Maryhill Visitation Cemetery.

Daughter of Alvin J. and Mary (Linnemann) Pitts.

On August 11, 1956, she was united in marriage to Don E. Alldredge at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Cherokee, IA. Following marriage, they moved to Illinois for a short time, then to Iowa approximately one year, before settling in the Colby, Kansas area. Don Worked for Vacin Farms Inc, in Colby for 32 years and Hills Farms prior to moving to Northwest Arkansas.

While in Colby, Marlys fed not only her family but also the farmhands who were hired for help on the farm. She was then hired on at the Colby Public Schools as a baker. She worked for the schools for many years as a baker. While living in Rogers, AR, Marlys also worked in the Bentonville Schools as a cook for several years before retiring. She also loved canning/preserving what they grew in the garden. Marlys also loved doing genealogy, and spent many years connecting folks not only in the United States but England and Germany. Don and Marlys were members of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Marlys was a member of the Altar Society and later sang in the choir.

It was very bittersweet when they moved to NW Arkansas and left so many very close friends, neighbors, and friends behind, to be closer to their son and his family in 1990. While living in Rogers, AR, Marlys also worked in the Bentonville Schools as a cook for several years before retiring.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Alvin J. and Mary (Linnemann) Pitts; her late husband, Don E. Alldredge; brothers and sisters and their spouses, Imelda (Pitts) Bernard McDermott, Shirley (Pitts) Laurence Kennedy, William Pitts (Edith), and Rosemary (aka Toody) Ervin Westphal.

Mother of son, Alvin R. Alldredge and wife Gayla D. (Goossen) Alldredge; and daughter, Angela R. (Alldredge) Landers .
Source: Chronicle Times, 28 July 2021