three grandchildren; and Brad (Nancy) Rodemeyer, their five children and two grandchildren. Besides her forty-five nieces and nephews, she is survived by her sister Verna Mahncke, brother Marvin W. and wife Patty and sister-in-law Marie Rodemeyer. She was preceded in death by her parents, brother Arnold and wife Marion, brother Dale and wife Edna, brother-in-law Robert Mahncke, and her brother Wilber in infancy. Marlys was a member of the Berea Lutheran Church in Minnesota.