Mary E. Beck

Mary E. Beck, age 82, of Carroll, Iowa, and formerly of Lake City, Iowa, passed away on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at Regency Park Nursing Home in Carroll. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 P.M. on Saturday, November 26, 2011 at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll with Fr. Timothy Johnson of Holy Spirit Catholic Church officiating. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 12:30 P.M. on Saturday until the time of service. A private family burial will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery in Manson, Iowa at a later date. Born on May 22, 1929 on her family’s farm in North East Missouri, she was the daughter of Everett and Mary Ellen (Murphy) Haage. She grew up in Missouri and graduated from Wayland High School. Following high school she attended college and taught school in several school districts in Missouri. She later earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Buena Vista College and then taught second grade at Manson, Iowa for many years. She was married to Dale Edward Gommels and he passed away in 1968. She later married George Clyde Beck in March of 1972. The couple made their home in Lake City for many years where she assisted George in his Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner Business. They wintered in Texas for twenty five years and moved to Orchard View in Carroll in August of 2011. Mary was a member of the Catholic Church. She was a member of the Daughter’s of the American Revolution. Mary did extensive genealogical research discovering her family’s lineage from the Mayflower and her extended family’s lineage. Surviving are her husband George Beck of Carroll; two daughters: Mary Ellen Gumm and her husband Steven of Pine, Colorado, and Tresa Feldmann and her husband Tony of Carroll; two sons: James Gommels of Copperas Cove, Texas, and Eldon Gommels of Keokuk, Iowa; nine grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; three sisters: Letha Sherrill and her husband Raymond of Kahoka, Missouri, Goldie Laymon and her husband Ralph “Bud” of Revere, Missouri, and Esther Justice and her husband Gary of Williamstown, Missouri; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins. Mary was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Dale Gommels, a brother Stanley, a sister Mildred Simons, and a brother in infancy.