Marcella was born April 21, 1923, to Walter & Elsie (Hamann) Struwe. She was raised in rural Gladbrook. Marcella married Ervin Dahms on January 29, 1947, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, IA. They made their home in Gladbrook. They had one son, Dennis, born on January 7, 1948, who graduated from Gladbrook High School. They then moved to Des Moines. Marcella was a homemaker and did babysitting. Ervin and Marcella loved to listen to ballroom music and dance the night away. After Ervin’s death on July 19, 1991, Marcella moved to Marshalltown to be closer to her mother. She eventually moved back to Gladbrook and lived in the Eastbrook Apartments. With her friends they loved traveling to Marshalltown to shop, senior dinners and she enjoyed walking around Gladbrook every day. Marcella was a member of the Peace United Church of Christ.

Marcella is survived by Ed & Claudia Sharp, of El Dorado Hills, CA, grandchildren: Jay Dahms & friend, Jennifer, & Kaleb and Christian, of Colorado Springs, Co, Darcy (Tim) Adams & Max, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Troy (Lynette) Seehawer, of Antioch, CA, Vickie (Todd) Fiske & Morgan, Taylor and Cortney, of Pleasanton, CA, and Valerie Keast & Foster, of Pleasanton, CA, nephew Bill (Jan) Struwe & Bill Jr., of Clifton, NJ.

Preceding her in death besides her husband was her son Dennis and a brother Lester and his wife, Marge Struwe, of Clifton, New Jersey.