Marian Abbie Chase died on February 18, 2013. She was 98.

Marian was born on a farm in Murray County, and raised in Osceola, Iowa until she went to Northern Iowa University.

She became a teacher, moving to Toledo, Iowa for her first teaching job. It was there that she met and married Robert L. Chase. They moved to Des Moines in 1943. Together they had three children, Mary Jane Muehlhausen, William Chase, and Robert (Tip) Chase. They had nine grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and brother Col. Wayne Lambertson.