Marvel LaRue Marie Ode

The funeral for Marvel Ode will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, 2013, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Lanesboro, with the Rev. Kerry Eversole officiating. Burial will be in the Lanesboro Cemetery. Marvel, 99, of Lanesboro, died Monday, April 15, 2013, at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Rushford, where she had resided since January 2012. Marvel LaRue Marie Mundt was born Sept. 27, 1913, in Ossian, Iowa. She grew up in Ossian and graduated from high school in 1932. She completed a teaching certificate from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and taught in a one-room school. On June 11, 1937, Marvel married Walter J. Ode of Decorah, Iowa, in Castalia, Iowa. Walter died Feb. 26, 2001. They first farmed in the Decorah area and later moved to Lanesboro in 1947 where Walter and his partner Paul Evenson established the Lanesboro Sales Commission. Walter and Marvel raised six children together. She was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church, WELCA, and Lanesboro Golf Club. She enjoyed bowling, horseback riding, square and ballroom dancing, Norwegian baking and made an afghan for all her grandchildren, She also enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening, and was an avid Twins baseball fan. Her family was always first. Survivors include three sons, Carson (Constance) of Des Moines, Iowa; Gerald (Patricia) of Roseville, and Wayne (Trudy) of St. Charles; a daughter, Diane (Gary) Roddy of Lanesboro; 14 grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchildren. Marvel was preceded in death by her husband and two daughters, Linda Root and Peggy Ode, three brothers, Glen Mundt, Lloyd Mundt, Leslie Mundt and three sisters, Viola Birdsell, Ruth Kallevang and Mildred Lofte. Visitation will be held for one hour before the service on Friday, April 19, at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Memorials preferred to Bethlehem Lutheran Church and the Lanesboro Cemetery. Johnson-Riley Funeral Home of Lanesboro is handling the arrangements. 507-467-2130 rileyfuneralhomes.com