March 1 1924 February 25 2020
Dolores “Mickie” Varty, 95, of Mason City, passed away Tuesday, February 25, 2020, at Good Shepherd Health Center, Mason City. Funeral services will be held 10:00 a.m. Monday, March 2, 2020, at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 3rd Street NE, in Mason City. The Reverend Kent Mechler Chaplin of Good Shepherd Health Center officiating. Family burial will be held at Marion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Gunder, Iowa with Reverend Marshall Hahn officiating. Visitation with a heavenly birthday celebration will be held from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2020 at Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 3rd Street NE, in Mason City. Memorial contributions may be directed to family and St. Jude’s children hospital. Dolores M. Varty was born March 1, 1924 in Luana, Iowa, daughter of Lewis and Clara (Mork) McNally. She was part of a large family of eleven children, eight girls and three boys. The family lived on a large cattle farm and life was always busy. She attended country school before going to High School in Postville. It was there she learned to love Drama and was in Speech contests and Junior and Senior plays. She continued to pursue these activities in college at the University of Iowa, where she also added Radio to her schedule. During her third year at the University, she interviewed with T.W.A. to become an Airline hostess, and left college to pursue that career. After training in Kansas City, Mo., she was transferred to Los Angeles to fly out of the Burbank airport. She began her flights on the 21 passenger DC 3, and later graduated to the bigger Constellation where she shared duties with a bigger crew. Most of her flights went east, so she had the opportunity to visit many eastern cities, including New York and Washington D.C. as part of her job. She met Hugh Varty of Lancaster, Ca., at a USO dance, while she was at the University of Iowa and he was training in Iowa for the Navy. In 1946, she married Hugh and she retired from the airlines. Since her husband’s work was with Standard Oil Co. he was sent to their company town in the desert of Taft, California. While living there for two years she worked for an optometrist. A change in plans led them back to Iowa. They lived in Marion and she worked for Boyson Jewelry in Cedar Rapids. Her husband’s worked caused another move, this time to Minneapolis. They had just adopted a son, and were now expecting to adopt a little girl. Happily, this became a reality. After four year in Minneapolis, her husband was transferred to Iowa and Clear Lake became their home. Her love of decorating came in handy when they went in the home building business and she hired a crew of six women to decorate homes. She worked in the office part time but preferred to be out with the crew whenever she could. Her next pursuit was in Real Estate and she worked for Anchor Realty until her retirement in her mid-eighties. Life was always busy for her, as she served both in the church and community. She was a Cub Scout Leader, a Girl Scout Leader, and Neighbor Chairman of Girl Scouts, a Sunday school teacher, P.T.A. President, a member of T.T.T. A.Q. for over fifty years and served as President twice and was Chairman of the T.T.T. Charity Ball, at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake. She volunteered at K.C.M.R. radio for five years as a DJ. She loved Clear Lake and was an inactive member of Questers, T.T.T. A.Q., Joy Circle, Elderberries and a Writers Small Group at Zion. She lived at Lake Plaza apartments in Clear Lake, Kentucky Ridge and Good Shepherd in Mason City. The family would like to thank Dr. Burt Bottjen, Dr. Denisa Hagau, the staff at Kentucky Ridge, Good Shepherd and Hospice for their loving care and support to Dolores and her family. Dolores’s family and friends were most important to her, and her happiest times were getting together with her extended family. Her granddaughter and great grandsons were her greatest joy. She is survived by daughter, Dion Varty; granddaughter, Miranda (Jason Nauman) Varty; two great grandsons, Jakob and Jarrett Servantez all of Mason City; a special niece who was like a second daughter, Terri Paulson; three sisters, Betty Searls, Patricia Smith and Sandy (John) Cutler; sister in-law, Wanda McNally; brother, Ron McNally; many nieces, nephews and extended family members. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hugh Varty; son, William “Bill” Varty; four sisters, Mary (Lindy) Blatti, Lucy (Jim) Cochrane, Shirley (Don) Nylund and Virginia (Bob) Rude; two brothers, Robert and Wayne McNally; sisters in-law, Sarah McNally, Bernice (Don) Jaqua; brothers in-law, Richard Searls, Paul Smith and Pat (Helen) Varty; nephews, Rand McNally, Jonathan Cutler, Doug DCamp and great niece, Rachel Paulson. To send flowers or a memorial gift to the family of Dolores “Mickie” M Varty please visit our Sympathy Store.
Our most sincere sympathies to the family and friends of Dolores Mickie M Varty March 1 1924 February 25 2020.
Death notice for the town of: Manly, state: Iowa