ELBERON: Mabel Rayman, age 99, died Thursday, June 29, 2006 at Grandview Acres in Toledo following an extended illness.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:30 AM, Monday, July 3, 2006 at the Elberon United Methodist Church with Rev. Jena Manchester, Pastor Norm Bennett, and Rev. Jeffrey R. Frese officiating. Interment will be held at National Cemetery in Vining. Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Keystone from 2 to 6 PM on Sunday. A memorial fund has been established.
Mabel was a daughter of Melvin and Edith Turbett and was born April 1, 1907 in Toledo. She graduated from Toledo High School in 1926 and went on to teach five years in various country schools. She met her future husband, Adolph Rayman, while teaching at a country school called York #1 in Tama County. Adolph and Mabel were married October 1, 1932.
Mabel and Adolph raised their three sons, Ronald, Wayne and Larry near Elberon where the couple farmed for nearly sixty years. Mabel was also organist for the Elberon United Methodist Church, President of the Ladies Aide, Secretary of the Elberon American Legion Auxiliary and Noble Grand of the Rebecca Lodge.
She moved to Grandview Acres in Toledo in 2002. While there she played her own organ daily for other residents and visitors in the chapel of the facility. Her piano skills dated to playing for silent movies at Toledo's Wieting Theatre in 1922. She had many talents creating crafts. While at Grandview she fashioned over five hundred plastic spoon roses.
She was a friend of all who knew her. Her charm, grace and limitless love endeared her to every sole she met and will forever be cherished by her family.
Mabel is survived by her three sons, Ronald (Janis) Rayman, Cedar Rapids, Wayne Rayman, Elberon, Larry (Joynell) Raymon, her sister Marie Baldus, Ames; her ten grandchildren, and twelve great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Adolph in 1991, her daughter-in-law, Joanne Rayman, her parents; two brothers; and one sister.
