Ethel Marie Puderbaugh

Ozawkie – Graveside services for Ethel Marie Puderbaugh, 80, Meriden, will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ozawkie Cemetery.Mrs. Puderbaugh died Thursday, April 13, 2006, at Hickory Pointe Care Center in Oskaloosa.She was born June 29, 1925, in Valley Falls, the daughter of Meryl D. and Leona May Langston Curtis. She was a lifelong Meriden resident.Mrs. Puderbaugh worked as a house painter and builder from 1976 to 1991 and was a homemaker.She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary No. 36 of Oskaloosa and American Association of Retired Persons.She married Cecil Ray Puderbaugh Sr. on Dec. 9, 1942, at Rock Creek. He survives, of the home.Other survivors include two sons, Cecil “Pat” Ray Puderbaugh Jr., Coldwater, and Danny Dale Puderbaugh, Meriden; a daughter, Martha Louise Robbins, Ozawkie; a brother, William H. Curtis, Topeka; a sister, Leona Lea Grimes, Richmond, Calif.; five grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.Three great-grandchildren died earlier.The family will receive friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Barnett-Chapel Oaks Meriden Funeral Chapel in Meriden.The family suggests memorials to the Cornelia De Lange Syndrome Assn., sent in care of the funeral home, P.O. Box 331, Meriden 66512.