Maxine Schlegel

OTTUMWA ? Maxine Glenn Schlegel, 94, of Ottumwa, died Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, in Ottumwa Hospice House.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m., Saturday, Nov. 14, at First Presbyterian Church in Ottumwa. No visitation is planned. Memorials may be made to the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra, First Presbyterian Church of Ottumwa or Hospice of Ottumwa. Robertson-Jay Funeral Home in Ottumwa is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Schlegel was born Nov. 25, 1920, in Appomattox, Virginia, the daughter of Erie and Pauline (Coleman) Glenn. She married Dick Schlegel of Bloomfield on April 4, 1942, in Clemson, South Carolina, where he was a cadet in the Army Air Corps.

She was a 1938 graduate of Appomattox High School and attended Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. She later worked as a secretary in Washington, D.C., where she met her future husband in 1940. After their marriage, she and her husband moved to Windsor Locks, Connecticut, where he continued flight instruction. After he was shipped to the European Theater of War in 1945, she moved to Bloomfield. She was a member of P.E.O., the Ottumwa Symphony, Garden Club, Art Club, Fortnightly, Wa han ka, Irving Club and Lorraine League. She was a deacon of First Presbyterian Church in Ottumwa and enjoyed helping with the Sunday church flowers for several years. She enjoyed gardening and entertaining, and was an accomplished gourmet cook.

Surviving are three children, Richard R. Schlegel II and wife Donna of Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mary Patricia Schmit and husband Steve of Murrieta, California, and Robert G. Schlegel and wife Deborah of Washington; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Virginia Kangas; and her husband, Dick.