PURMORT, Margaret (Sailor): Died 1990

PURMORT, HARRIS, SAILOR, MANSFIELD, OVROM

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Date: 2/21/2025 at 00:12:58

Margaret Sailer(err) Purmort

Margaret Sailor Pumort, 95, died Nov. 27 at Karen Acres in Des Moines, where she had resided for a month.

The daughter of Henry L. and Jennie Harris Sailor, she was born August 11, 1895 in Cedar Rapids.

She graduated from Washington High School in 1914 and cum laude from Coe College, Cedar Rapids, in 1918.

She taught English, Latin and mathematics at schools in State Center, Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.

She married Elliott Purmort June 22, 1922. They operated a dairy farm at Ankeny from 1930 to 1945, when they moved to Des Moines, Mr. Purmort in 1951.

After his death she was employed as an office assistant to Des Moines physicians and at the Iowa statehouse.

She was a member of Weavers Guild, P.E.O. Sisterhood and was an ordained elder in the Douglas Avenue Presbyterian Church where she taught an adult Sunday school class for 21 years.

In addition to her husband, two sisters preceded her in death. She is survived by a sister, Ella Mansfield of Grand Junction, Colo. and by 36 nieces, nephews, great and great-grand nieces and nephews. Mary Ovrom of Keosauqua is a niece.

Mrs. Purmort was featured as Neighbor of the Week in the Nov. 14, 1990 issue of the Des Moines Register.

Memorials may be left to her church or to Coe College.

The body was cremated.

A memorial service was held Nov. 30 at Douglas Avenue Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Claude Jones officiating. Private burial was in Glendale Cemetery in Des Moines.

Source: "Scrapbook 1989 - 1990", Pg. 709,
Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, Van Buren Co., IA