Idella Marie Morehouse

Idella Marie (Post) Morehouse, age 75, wife of Maynard Morehouse, Bradley, died peacefully at home with her family early Saturday morning, November 19, 2011. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 23, 2011 at 10:30AM in the St. John's Lutheran Church at Bradley with Minister Marion Grimes officiating. The pianist will be Susan Olson with Dustin Flatten as soloist. Burial will follow in the Prairie Hill Cemetery at Bradley. Honorary casketbearers will be all of her family and friends. The active casketbearers will be grandsons Randy, James and Gene Morehouse, Collin Ragels, Tyson Evenson and Devon Smith. Visitation will be held on Tuesday from 5-7 PM with at 7PM public prayer service led by the Reverend Robin Schaunaman all in the Furness Funeral Home Chapel at Clark. Visitation will continue on Wednesday after 9AM at the Church in Bradley. She was born at Crocker, SD, on December 16, 1935, the daughter of Henry and Arlene (Clark) Post. Idella attended school at Crocker through the 8th grade and then went to high school at Bradley, graduating in 1954. After graduation she worked in Webster until her marriage. On December 24, 1955 she was united in marriage to Maynard Morehouse in Crocker. After their marriage they lived at Ft. Sill, OK until Maynard was discharged in February of 1957. After his discharge, the couple moved to Bristol where she was a home maker for six years. Then they moved to Bradley where they have lived since. While living in Bradley, she was the bookkeeper of the Bradley Grain and also was a bank teller at Citizens State Bank until she retired. Idella loved doing crafts, sewing, crocheting afghans, quilting and traveling to craft shows. Some other fond moments were spent going to sporting events that her children and grandchildren were participating in. She enjoyed being outdoors, tending to her flower beds and doing yard work. In the late summer, early fall, you could find her in the kitchen canning garden vegetables for her children and making dill pickles. She was a member of the St. John's Lutheran Church and the American Legion Auxiliary both at Bradley. Preceding her in death were her parents, two brothers, Leland and Harvey Post and two brother-in-laws, Stanley Novak and Raymond Lehna. Grateful for having shared her life is her husband of over 55 years, Maynard of Bradley, five children, Daniel "Shine" (Marie) Morehouse of Las Vegas, NV, Glenn (Sharon) Morehouse of Fargo, ND, Gail (Terry) Evenson of Willow Lake, Nina Smith and fiancé David Hoops of Ferney, SD and Pam Siefkin of Conde, SD; 10 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren and 5 step great-grandchildren. She also leaves siblings, Eldon (Bunny June) Post of Pendelton, OR, Larry Post of Belvedere, IL, Darlene Novak of Watertown and Darla Lehna of Gardner, KS; sister-in-law, Martha Post of Pilot, OR and a brother-in-law, Arvin (Colleen) Morehouse and many nieces and nephews. Funeral arrangements are with the Furness Funeral Home at Clark where there is an on-line registry at www.furnessfuneralhome.com