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Arlana MCKITTRICK

Female 1949 - 1972  (23 years)


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  • Name Arlana MCKITTRICK 
    Birth 25 Apr 1949  Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Occupation Nurse at University Hospital 
    Death 24 Dec 1972  Iowa City, Johnson County, Iowa Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Sugar Grove Cemetery, Clayton Twp, Crawford County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • In a typed note to Cora in March of 1968, Theresa Clements mentions that she bakes a lot and sends boxes of goodies with Cindy and Lana to take back with them when they come home on weekends.

      Killed in a car accident.

      From an article in the Estherville Daily News from Estherville, Iowa, in its issue of Tuesday, December 26, 1972, p. 3:

      Arlana Merry, 23, of Iowa City, was killed in a three-vehicle accident Sunday morning in Coralville. She was injured when her car was struck by a truck driven by Harold Thompson, 37, of Marion, and slammed into a traffic signal. She died later in University Hospitals in Iowa City.

      (Coralville is a suburb of Iowa City.)

      The La Crosse Tribune issue of Tuesday, December 26, 1972, p. 4, had this:

      Former Viola Woman Dies In Iowa Crash

      READSTOWN, Wis. - Mrs. Arlana Merry, 23, of Iowa City, Iowa, formerly of Viola, was killed Sunday, Dec. 24, in an auto accident in Iowa. No details were reported. Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Sugar Grove Church of Christ near Readstown. Rev. Tim Bright and Joe Adams officiating, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends were to call Tuesday afternoon and evening at the Sime Funeral Home in Readstown and at the church Wednesday after noon. She was born April 25. 1949, to Mr. and Mrs. Arland McKittrick, and she married Steven Merry in 1971. After graduating from Kickapoo High School at Viola, she took nurses training in Madison and was a registered nurse. She is survived by her husband, her parents of Viola; two brothers, Larry and Tom, and a sister, Ellen, all at home, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ernest McKittrick of Soldiers Grove.
    Person ID I841  Don Carlson's Tree
    Last Modified 5 Aug 2020 

    Father Arland J MCKITTRICK,   b. 10 May 1924, Crawford County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Aug 2015, Vernon County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 91 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Marie EKUM,   b. 30 Oct 1925, Vernon County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Jul 2020, Viroqua, Vernon County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 94 years) 
    Marriage 30 Jun 1948  Vernon County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F383  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Steven MERRY 
    Marriage 1971  Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F624  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 13 Oct 2009