Mary Evelyn Appleby

Mary Evelyn Appleby

1925-2015

Mary Evelyn Appleby, 90, Sun City Center, Florida, passed away Tuesday, November 17, 2015, She was born on May 26, 1925 near Clearmont, Missouri to Abner A. and Ruby Marie Dew Watson. The family later moved to Mount Ayr, Iowa, where she finished high school in 1942. After obtaining a teaching certificate from Northwest Missouri State she taught in a rural school for a short time. During World War II she was employed in a munitions plant in Colorado Springs. After the war she was employed as a telephone operator in Maryville, Missouri.

In 1948 she was united in marriage to Charles Appleby and they made their home in Maryville until moving to Hannibal, Missouri and later to Indianapolis, Indiana. She was a devoted wife and mother and cared for an invalid son in the home for many years.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1975, her son, Michael in 1977 and her daughter, Cheryl Walworth, in 2000. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Ralph and James Watson.

She is survived by her granddaughter, Andrea Rucker (John) and great-granddaughters, Jessika and Kelly Rucker of North Bend, Indiana and a sister, Shirley Gerhardt of Algona, Iowa.

She had been a resident of Sun City Center for the past 23 years and was an active member of the Trinity Baptist Church where she sang in the church choir.

Funeral services will be held Saturday, November 28 at noon at Shirley Brothers Washington Memorial Chapel in Indianapolis with burial to follow.