Mary Conway Obituary

Age - 78

October 8, 2023

Muscatine, IA

MARY 'SUE' CONWAY MUSCATINE, Iowa - Mary Sue Conway, 78, passed away on Friday, October 6, 2023, at Lutheran Living Senior Campus. Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a. m. on Thursday, October 12, 2023, at St. Mathias Church. Rosary will be held at 10:00 a. m. , at the church. The Reverend Chris Weber and Reverend Troy Richmond will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Muscatine Humane Society. Online condolences may be made at www. wittichfuneralhome. com . Sue was born on September 18, 1945, in Grand Island, Nebraska, the daughter of Merrill Andrew and Alice Barbara O'Connor Nelson. Sue worked for HON as a Human Resource Generalist from 1978 until retiring in 2006. Sue was a member of Ss. Mary Mathias Parish and enjoyed movies, reading, the Chicago Cubs and the Iowa Hawkeyes. Sue is survived by her three children, Michaela Curry and husband, Don, Kelly Irwin and husband, Matt, and Sean Conway and wife, Josephine, all of Muscatine; six grandchildren, Rachel Nieland and husband, Eric, Dylan Curry, Noah Irwin, Madelyn Irwin, Cassidy Conway, and Katelyn Bunn; and four great grandchildren, Maryn, Gretchen, and Waylin Nieland, and Kaine Irwin. She is preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Terry Nelson.

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