Margaret J. Wolf, 94, of Waterloo, formerly of Lincoln, Nebraska, died at Ravenwood Nursing and Rehab Center on Friday, August 7, 2009 of natural causes.

Margaret Jean was born July 20, 1915 in North Barclay, Iowa daughter of John and Mary Ortner Belo. She graduated from Waterloo East High School.

She married Ora Watson; they later divorced. She married Maurice Wolf; he died in August 1970.

She was a nurse’s aide at Mental Health Institute in Independence, Iowa and in Lincoln Nebraska, where she retired.

Margaret was baptized at North Barclay Catholic Church and later was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church in Waterloo. She told it like it was and embraced strangers without reserve.

She is survived by sons Allen Watson and Lee Watson of Waterloo, daughters Mary Gruver and Joan (Dick) Richter of Waterloo, son Norbert (Shirley) Wolf of Hampton, Arkansas, and son Joseph Wolf of Lincoln, Nebraska, fourteen grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren, and five great great grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband, three grandsons: Michael Watson, Michael Gruver, and Lee Brandes, two granddaughters: Millicent Watson and Cristal Brandes, four brothers: Alvin, Andy, Art, and John Belo, and sister Betty Akin.