Marilyn Black

Marilyn Kay (Leibold) Black was born December 29, 1941, to Merritt Wayne and Mary Christine (Sorenson) Leibold near Moorhead, Iowa. She was raised in Woodbine and graduated from Woodbine High School in 1960. Marilyn then worked at Northwestern Bell Telephone Company. Marilyn married Dale Eugene Black at the RLDS Church in Dunlap on September 23, 1961. The couple lived in Omaha, then Council Bluffs, and then moved to Woodbine in the mid 1960s. Marilyn then worked as the cook for the Woodbine Community School District. She retired from the school in 2003.

Marilyn loved her family. She enjoyed crocheting, sewing and cooking. She would take her homemade cookies to the city employees, REC employees, Stephany & Coe and to Carson & Clark.

Marilyn died on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the age of 71 years, three months, and seven days.

Marilyn was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Dale Black on December 7, 2010; and half brother, Eldon Sorenson. She is survived by her son, Marty Black and his wife Betty of Alpine, Alabama; daughter, Linda and her husband Barry Brady of Omaha, Nebraska; three grandchildren, Jason, Kayla and William; two great granddaughters, Kaylee and Danielle; brother, Byron Leibold and his wife Sue of Pinetop, Arizona; and many other relatives and friends.