Mary Margaret Nowels

November 3, 1924 - June 24, 2019

Mary Margaret Nowels, age 94, of Huntington, died at 1:18 a.m. Monday, June 24, 2019 at Parkview Huntington Hospital. Visitation will be from 4 – 8 p.m. Thursday, June 27, 2019 at Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Indiana. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Bailey-Love Mortuary with Rev. Dr. Marti Lundy officiating. There will be one hour of visitation prior to the service. Burial will be in Gardens of Memory in Huntington County. Preferred memorials are to Wounded Warrior Project or Honor Flight NE Indiana, in care of Bailey-Love Mortuary, 35 West Park Drive, Huntington, Indiana, 46750. Mary was born on November 3, 1924 in Huntington, the daughter of Carl & Irene (Finley) Stahl. She married Herbert L. Nowels on July 2, 1947 in Huntington and he preceded her in death on November 30, 1997. In 1984, Mary retired as a team leader from Magnetek after 35 years of service. She had also worked at Caswell Runyan Cabinet Company and also worked at General Electric in Fort Wayne making bombs during World War II. She played basketball for the GE Club in Fort Wayne and was a member of the Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority. She was a lifetime member of American Legion Post #7 and a member of Evangelical United Methodist Church in Huntington. Mary volunteered at both Huntington Memorial and Parkview Huntington Hospital. Surviving are daughters Cindy Lockwood of Fort Wayne and Cathy K. (Mike) Anderson of Roanoke, sisters Dorothy Miller of Brownsburg and Bonnie Beck of Syracuse, grandchildren Theresa Ruppert, Ryan Lockwood, Nicholas Anderson, and Brandon Anderson, and great grandchildren Ethan Ruppert, Liam Ruppert, Jonah Ruppert, and Evelyn Anderson. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, sisters Nancy Karriger, Betty Stahl, and Helen Timmons, and brothers Earl Stahl, Max Stahl, and Robert Stahl.