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• Birth	31 Jan 1902	Drury, Rock Island, Illinois, USA   [1]
  Gender	Female
  _UPD	19 SEP 2009 20:43:55 GMT-5
  Died	28 Nov 2000	Lutheran Homes, Muscatine County, Iowa   [1]
  Person ID	I6028	Alan Donald Vibber
  Last Modified	08 Dec 2009
  Father	Bowser John Boney,   b. 1854,   d. 1919
  Mother	Spitznogel or Spitznagel Minnie,   b. 1859
  Family ID	F551	Group Sheet
  Family	Gifford,   d. 1984
  Children	1. Gifford Merle   2. Gifford Shirley   3. Gifford Harvey,   d. 1998
  Family ID	F2549	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Name: MATTIE GIFFORD Submitted by Mary E Boyer (of no relation). Date submitted: December 26, 2007 Source of Obituary: Muscatine, Iowa, Newspaper Date Unknown Mattie L. GIFFORD, 98, of Muscatine, died Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2000, at Lutheran Homes. Services will be Saturday at the Geo. M. Wittich-Lewis Funeral Home. Burial will be at Muscatine Memorial Park Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Herbert Fickel, Gifford Fickel. Leslie Rizzo, DeAnn Dolan, Dikki Andrews, Sherri Mazzetelli and Stephanie Brand. --- Mrs. GIFFORD was born Jan. 31, 1902, in Drury Township, Rock Island County, Ill., the daughter of John B. and Minnie SPITZNOGEL-BOWSER.--- She attended Browns Business College. She was the oldest member of Foster Providence Baptist Church, but in more recent years she attended Letts United Methodist Church. She enjoyed the Letts Friendly Neighbors Club for many years as well as crocheting and taking pictures for activities at the Village at the former Bethesda Care Center.--- Survivors include a son, Merle GIFFORD and his wife, Mary, of Bettendorf; a daughter, Shirley HOAG and her husband, Ralph, of Letts, Iowa; 14 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, Claude GIFFORD and his wife, Helene, of Arlington, Va. and Ledru BRAUCHT of Joy, Ill.; a niece, Betty STEAHR and her husband, Charles, of Wilton and one nephew John Russell VIBBER of Seattle, Wash.--- She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1984; her son, Harvey, in 1998; two brothers, “Rannie” BOWSER and “Boney” BOWSER; and three sisters, Mae VIBBER, Pearl FELDMAN and Della WORKMAN.

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