Claremont Obituaries

Marianne Rawlings (nee Spaw), beloved matriarch of the Rawlings clan, died peacefully at her daughter Monique’s home in Villa Park, California in the early morning of February 3, one week before her 92nd birthday.

Marianne was born February 10, 1931, on her maternal grandparents’ farm near Arbor Hill, not far from Greenfield, Iowa. Her mother was Floy Wilma Spaw (nee Bunce), and her father was Clarence William Spaw. Although she mostly lived and attended school in Des Moines, she spent many happy hours on the farm with “grama” Milly Jane (nee Pryor) and “grampa” Grant Bunce.