Marjorie Tweedy Lind died at the Montrose Care Center January 14, 2006, three miles from her childhood home, where she was born March 11, 1914, the seventh child of Hugh and Ve Starr Tweedy. She attended Parsons and Cedar Falls Teachers College, then taught at Viele and Liberty, one-room country schools near Montrose, IA, before teaching at Argyle, IA three more years. She loved being a teacher, and was a member of Retired Teacher's Association for the rest of her life. In 1939 she married Merton Lind of Argyle, IA and moved to the Lind Farm where she lived the next sixty years, raising three children, being a farm wife, and serving her community. She loved the outdoors; she often set out with a walking stick to hunt mushrooms, gather hickory nuts and wildflowers, or simply to walk, especially if it was raining. When she walked with others, she was always in the lead; outdoors, she was in her essence. Her last walking stick, which she used until she broke her leg in 2002, made of sassafras, will be buried with her. She was nourished by friendships and family gatherings as much as by the land she walked on. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1999, her parents, four brothers, James, Kenneth, Hughie and Jay, four sisters, Mildred, Katheryn, Ve and Florence. Surviving are her children, Janet Lind Hewitt and husband Geof of Calais, Vermont, Jacob Lind and his wife Deanna of Argyle, IA, James Lind and his wife Janis of Leadville, CO, five grandchildren, Erinn Lind of Gilbert, AZ, Shannon Brownell of Clarendon Hills, IL, Megan Fox of Dallas TX, Ben Hewitt of Cabot, VT and Anna Lind Hewitt of Northampton, MA, four great-grandchildren, Reagan Lind Brownell, Nathaniel Brownell, Fin Hewitt and Rye Hewitt, two sisters, Elizabeth Dresser of Montrose, IA, Virginia Pezley of Argyle, IA and one brother, David Tweedy of Montrose, IA. She is also survived by caregivers to whom the family wants to say "thank you". Funeral services were held at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, January 17 at the Melrose United Methodist Church in rural Argyle, IA with Reverend John Abraham and Elaine Tweedy Foley officiating. Burial was in the Scandinavian Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Scandinavian Cemetery, 2060 300th St., Montrose, IA.