Edith M. "Edie" Elmore

Edith “Edie” Elmore, 76, of Bettendorf, died Friday, September 14, 2007 at Genesis Medical Center, West Campus in Davenport Iowa from complications of lung disease. Services will be held at McGinnis Chambers Funeral Home, 644 River Drive, Bettendorf, at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, September 17. Visitation is from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the funeral home on Sunday, September 16. Burial will be in Pine Hill Cemetery, Davenport.
Edith Mae Dodge was born October 20, 1930, to Laura Marguerite (Williams) and Cyril Clinton Dodge in Boone, Iowa. On October 24, 1948, she married Murray B. Elmore at the Methodist Church in her hometown of Ogden, Iowa. She attended schools in Ogden and later proudly received a PHT degree, as did many WWII wives, for “putting hubby through” college.
Edie and Murray were married 58 years. During that time, they visited Europe seven times, three of which were pilgrimages to the Baha’i Holy Places in Haifa and Akka, Israel. In her younger years, Edie was recognized as Clubwoman of the Year by the former Davenport-Bettendorf Federated Women’s Club. Later she was twice named Volunteer of the Year by Quad City Arts, Rock Island, the 2nd time with her husband, Murray. In her later years she was proud to serve as a board member of CASI, Center for Active Seniors, Davenport. Edie’s professional career was as a secretary, especially as a legal secretary. Her other interests were reading and public speaking. A tutored student at Drake University, Des Moines, in her youth, she practiced this art and that of a secretary all her life and in recent years has participated in the Quad City Senior Olympics performing arts division, winning gold and silver medals in the dramatic reading category.
Missing Edie’s physical presence are her husband, Murray, son Clinton and his wife Rosie of Milledgeville, IL, daughter Laura Cox and her husband Tim of Bettendorf, and a brother Daniel Dodge and his wife, Alice, of Waukee, Iowa, as well as grandchildren, Sara Cox of Boulder, CO and Ryan Cox of Bettendorf, Clint (Kip) Elmore and his wife Jamie of Milwaukee, WI, and Shawna Cassidy of Rock Island, IL. Great grandchildren, Adrienne and Matthew Elmore and Payton Cassidy. Preceding her in death were her son Richard in 2003, and her parents.
Memorials may be made to CASI ( Center for Active Seniors), 1035 West Kimberly Road, Davenport or Handicapped Development Center, 3402 Hickory Grove Road, Davenport.