Martha L. Rank, 85, of Urbandale, Iowa, formerly of Davenport, left this life on Sunday, November 11, 2007. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, November 15, 2007, at St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, 1917 W. Kimberly Road, Davenport. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service at church. Burial will immediately follow the funeral service at Davenport Memorial Park Cemetery. Memorials may be made to Iowa Hospice. The Runge Mortuary is assisting the family with final arrangements.

Mrs. Rank was born November 27, 1921, in Maquoketa, Iowa. She was the daughter of Fredrick and Dina Schischat, Lost Nation, Iowa. She graduated from Lost Nation High School at the age of sixteen. A short time later she moved to Davenport, lived with an older sister, and took college classes.

While working in Davenport, Martha met and later married Charles R. Rank on March 15, 1941, at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, Nashua, Iowa. They were married for fifty-seven years at the time of his death in 1998.

Before leaving to start a family, Martha worked for 10 years as a chemist and bookkeeper for the Riverside Power Plant and the Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company. She was a homemaker while her children were small and then went to work as an administrative assistant at the Visiting Nurse and Homemaker Service of Scott County. She retired from there after twenty-nine years of employment.

Martha had been involved in the St. Matthew's church choir, the Davenport Pilot Club, the Junior and Senior Women's Clubs, as well as the P.T.A. when her children were young. She was a member of the League of Women Voters as well. Martha loved to play bridge. Before she left Davenport for Des Moines, she was still active in the same bridge group that she had started with friend in 1943.

Her survivors include her children; twins, Richard C. Rank, Cedar Rapids, and Vicki R. Teigen, West Des Moines; grandchildren, Nicholas and Meghan Teigen, West Des Moines; and a great-granddaughter, Alexas Teigen, West Des Moines.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by sisters, Mabel Hartz, Hilda Henley and Ruth Busch.