their school activities. Her church family was also very important to her. She enjoyed reading, sewing, gardening, going on walks, watching games shows on tv and watching the Iowa Hawkeyes. Gayle died Friday, September 28, 2018, at Mercy Medical Center North Iowa in Mason City. She was 93. She is survived by her children, Dave Rarick of Ainsworth; Diana and Mike Pearson of Corwith; Duane and Dena Rarick of Ainsworth; 16 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren. Also surviving are siblings, Jim Blum of Anamosa; Mae Martin of Columbus Junction; Jeannette Sexton of Riverside and many nieces and nephew. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, William; three brothers, Clarence, Donald and Marion Blum and two sisters, Viola Sexton and Lillian Graf.