Marion M. Schrum ­ Ashley Erin Richardson - Edna Irene Rohla - Thomas Anthony McDermott Jr.

Marion M. Schrum

Marion M. Schrum died Feb. 3, 2007, at Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix. She was born in Bryant, Iowa, on Feb. 1, 1924, the daughter of William and Agnes (Mattheisen) Schrum. Marion was 83 years old.

Marion received a scholarship from Mount St. Clare Junior College in Clinton and her Bachelors degree from St. Louis University, after which she began her teaching obligation at Mercy Hospital in Burlington, Iowa. She continued her education with a Masters from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., in nursing school administration and her Ed.D from Stanford. She retired as the Academic Dean of Nursing from the University of Nevada, Reno; prior to that she had been at both Villanova College of Nursing and San Francisco State and Department Chair at the University of Wyoming and Dean of Nursing.

Marion moved to Prescott in 1990 and was a very faithful member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

She is survived by her nephew, Michael Schrum and niece, Patricia Schrum Dick and her nephew Steven's wife, Kathleen Schrum; seven grand-nephews; many friends; and her beloved Henry.

A Funeral Mass will take place at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 150 Fleury Ave. in Prescott with burial in the family plot in Clinton, Iowa, on the Feb. 16.

Arizona Ruffner Wakelin Funeral Home is assisting the family.

(Information provided by survivors.)

Ashley Erin Richardson

Ashley was born Dec. 21, 1979, at Laughlin AFB, Del Rio, Texas, and passed away Dec. 19, 2006. She is survived by her parents, Mark and Ginger Richardson of Woodlands, Texas; brother, Mark Richardson, Jr.; grandfather, Chester Richardson; aunt,

Marilyn Howe; special friend, Juan Carlos Maldonado; and many other aunts, uncles, and cousins in Texas and North Carolina. Ashley lived in this community from 2001 to 2002 before returning to Texas. Please visit

Ashley's Web site at www.remembered-forever.org.

(Information provided by survivors.)

Edna Irene Rohla

Edna Irene Rohla, 90, of Chino Valley, born April 18, 1916, in Guide Rock, Neb., died Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, in Prescott.

No services are planned at this time.

Arrangements by Chino Valley Funeral Home.

Thomas Anthony McDermott Jr.

Thomas Anthony McDermott Jr., 72, of Prescott, born Dec. 30, 1934, in Brooklyn, N.Y., died Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007, in Prescott.

No services are planned at this time.

Arrangements by Chino Valley Funeral Home.


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