Margaret Irey

SALEM - Margaret Evelyn (Hall) Howells Montgomery Irey (age 87) went home to be with her Lord. She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.

Evelyn has been a lifetime area resident. She was born on Sept. 3, 1922, in Salem to the late Lindley and Orpha (Pike) Hall. She worked on the farm on Woodsdale Road where they had a dairy and chicken farm. During her life she also was a real estate agent with Wesco Reality, an Avon sales lady, a home health care giver, and a bookkeeper/secretary for her son-in-law at Current Electric.

She was a former member of the Salem Southeast Friends Church and a current member of the Salem First Friends Church. She was a former church treasurer at Southeast Friends Church, a former Sunday school teacher and secretary at First Friends Church, a member of the Gideon Society Auxiliary, a 1940 graduate of the Barnesville Boarding School, a member of the Milk Marketing Association and Columbiana County Election Board.

Evelyn was able to share her life with her three wonderful husbands. Kenneth J. Howells whom she married March 15, 1941, and who passed away on July 19, 1980. Theo Montgomery whom she married Aug. 15, 1981, and who passed away on Oct. 20, 1984. C. Dawson Irey whom she married on Feb. 13, 1993, and who passed away on Feb. 25, 2005.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Don (Judy) Huston of Salem, and a son, Kenneth R. (Robin) Howells of Blairsville, Ga.; three sisters, Mrs. Ray (Mildred) Bignell of Guatemala City, Guatemala, Marjorie Hall of Herndon, Pa., Betty Gullett of Salem; a brother, Raymond Hall of Kennett Square, Pa., and a granddaughter, Leslie Howells; five stepchildren, several stepgrandchildren and great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by a stepgrandson, Darrin Huston.

A Celebration of Life Service will be held 1 p.m. on Monday, Salem First Friends Church, with Pastor John Pierce of the church and Pastor John Ryser of the Damascus Friends Church officiating. The burial will follow in Highland Memorial Park, Beloit.

A time of visitation will be held from 2-5 on Sunday afternoon, with a Gideon Society service at 5 p.m. at the Arbaugh-Pearce-Greenisen Funeral Home, Salem. On Monday, visitation will be from 11 a.m. -1 p.m. at the church in Salem.

Donations can be made to Gideon International or to the Salem First Friends Church.

9/25/09