Mary Elizabeth Lodwig Wyatt, 84, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2003, at
Parkview Medical Center in Riverside, Calif.
She was a graduate of Marion Harding High School and attended Capital
University. She completed catechism and was confirmed as a member of
Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Marion. During World War II she worked for
the U.S. Army Depot in Marion, assisting in the procurement of necessary
supplies and services for the war effort. She lived form approximately
1950 to 1973 at 128 Blaine Ave. in Marion and in 1973 moved to Richwood
and began work as office manager and co-owner with her husband of Wise's
IGA Supermarket until their retirement in early February 1986. She was
the sole survivor of a car accident that killed her husband on Feb.. 26,
1986. She became a resident of the Richwood Community Apartments in
April 1986 and lived there until March of 2000 when she moved to
Riverside, Calif. She was a resident of Magnolia Retirement Center in
Riverside and later moved to the Sky County House in Mira Loma, Calif.
She was born Feb. 26, 1919, in Marion, the youngest child and daughter
of Ray Thomas and Minnie Matilda Wolfinger Lodwig and was predeceased by
a brother, John T. Lodwig, and on Feb. 26, 1986, by her husband, John
Brundige Wyatt Jr. whom she married Nov. 17, 1946.
She is survived by a son, John B. Wyatt III of California; two
grandchildren, John B. Wyatt IV and Jacqueline Eva Marie Wyatt; two
nephews, Ray T. Lodwig of Xenia and John T. Lodwig Jr. of Dearborn,
Mich.; and a niece, Lynne Lodwig Maxim of Ellsworth, Maine.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Stofcheck Funeral
Home in Richwood. The Rev. William Maki will officiate and burial will
be at the Claibourne Cemetery. Friends may call one hour prior to the
service.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Mary E. Wyatt Scholarship in
Contract Management and Procurement, c/o Associated Students Inc.,
attention, Elaine Townsend, Acct. No. 3S0221, California State
Polytechnic University, Bldg. 35, 3801 W. Temple Ave., Pomona, CA 91768.
Directions to Claibourne Cemetery
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