Memorial Day Remembrance Flowers provided by Green Hills Retirement Community OBITUARIES AND TRIBUTES Clicking on the letter will take you to the desired section. A JoAnn Adair June 3, 1930 – March 3, 2020 Mary Atherly January 8, 1937 – October 21, 2019 B Mardith Baenziger October 20, 1945 – September 9, 2019 Howard Bair September 16, 1942 – February 20, 2020 Thomas Barta June 29, 1935 – May 16, 2019 Jeffrey Berger June 28, 1943 – February 11, 2020 Joan Bishop January 14, 1936 – August 21, 2019 John Boehm March 7, 1950 – May 7, 2019 William Bogue August 26, 1946 – May 5, 2019 Mary Jo Brearley March 3, 1930 – March 23, 2020 Barbara Buffington June 4, 1920 – April 9, 2020 N. Laurence Burkhalter June 30, 1920 – October 15, 2019 Janice Burkhart November 11, 1928 – December 25, 2019 Marlene Burkheimer October 22, 1950 – December 4, 2019 William Buss October 7, 1927 – August 12, 2019 C Cynthia Campbell January 1, 1955 – December 30, 2019 Mildred Chapman October 19, 1929 – December 27, 2017 Diane Childs July 11, 1944 – September 3, 2019 Ki Dong Cho October 27, 1932 – November 12, 2017 Sok Sun Cho April 1, 1934 – December 13, 2006 Robert Christensen August 17, 1951 – June 16, 2019 Elmer Clayton December 19, 1919 – February 1, 2020 Donna Cleasby November 25, 1928 – June 14, 2019 Robert Cody February 23, 1935 – June 12, 2019 James Curell February 2, 1953 – April 19, 2020 D Patricia Dale May 19, 1940 – September 22, 2019 Charlotte Davis March 10, 1941 – January 8, 2020 Nancy Dean March 25, 1936 – August 28, 2019 Paul Doak January 5, 1929 – May 12, 2019 E Willis Enquist July 16, 1928 – September 17, 2019 Marcia Even February 1, 1935 – July 18, 2018 F Jack Ferguson June 29, 1933 – December 6, 2019 Janet Fisher July 26, 1947 – August 6, 2019 Albert Freeman March 16, 1931 – March 21, 2020 G Linda Galyon April 29, 1933 – October 2, 2019 Duane Godfrey March 15, 1938 – May 7, 2019 Lynn Graham November 16, 1944 – September 13, 2019 Carol Greiner September 26, 1929 – January 4, 2020 H Michael Hamilton September 29, 1955 – December 12, 2019 Darlene Harl January 8, 1933 – January 2, 2020 Glenn Hillesland April 20, 1923 – January 12, 2020 Janet Hoff August 19, 1930 – June 5, 2019 Hsieh Hsung-Cheng February 24, 1929 – December 2, 2019 Wallace Hutchison September 17, 1930 – June 23, 2019 J Thomas Jellinger September 17, 1923 – March 2, 2020 Maxine Jensen August 26, 1922 – October 21, 2019 W. John Johnson April 13, 1931 – April 28, 2020 K Berdine Kaeberle June 19, 1933 – June 22, 2019 Marvin Katzer February 8, 1935 – January 27, 2018 Dean King December 22, 1937 – August 16, 2019 Eva Kinstle December 13, 1936 – April 6, 2020 Dorothy Kiser January 12, 1921 – November 12, 2019 L Joseph Legg May 22, 1928 – September 22, 2019 Jane Lenahan March 8, 1953 – March 8, 1953 Patricia Lersten August 11, 1936 – September 29, 2019 Carol Lindgren October 10, 1947 – July 7, 2019 Dudley Luckett September 10, 1928 – January 24, 2020 M Donald Maakestad July 22, 1929 – May 2, 2019 Katherine Mason May 5, 1939 – March 12, 2020 Joan Mattingly May 30, 1940 – January 10, 2020 Robert McIntire February 22, 1936 – May 30, 2019 Viola McKim January 23, 1927 – February 16, 2020 Georgia Miller July 18, 1935 – February 7, 2020 Joel Moses January 23, 1944 – September 28, 2019 Charles Mulford October 28, 1932 – August 6, 2019 Richard Munster August 16, 1928 – November 13, 2019 Joseph Musil November 20, 2020 – April 30, 2020 O Gary Osweiler September 8, 1942 – August 13, 2019 P John Pace September 17, 1925 – October 28, 2019 Betty Pepper November 26, 1925 – December 3, 2019 Ronald Peters September 4, 1938 – June 17, 2019 Sara (Sally) Peterson August 23, 1926 – November 17, 2019 Lois Pies August 11, 1930 – May 10, 2018 Allan Potter May 9, 1930 – May 8, 2019 R Connie Rasmussen May 5, 1933 – February 10, 2020 Larry Reed October 19, 1933 – January 7, 2020 Frank Rizzo April 20, 1938 – April 11, 2020 Roxana Robertson December 6, 1922 – October 15, 2019 S A. Elaine Schwartz March 29, 1936 – April 3, 2019 Evelyn (Toni) Schwartz October 29, 1918 – December 14, 2018 Mark Shamblin July 20, 1954 – March 23, 2020 Donald Shuey March 17, 1932 – October 22, 2019 Kenneth Smith February 26, 1934 – June 2, 2019 Shannon Smith September 17, 1963 – September 23, 2019 Jerome Symons July 24, 1933 – December 6, 2019 T Thomas Thielen October 10, 1934 – March 23, 2020 Clyde Thogmartin June 15, 1940 – March 10, 2020 V Beverly Van Fossen October 27, 1932 – February 2, 2020 W Ruth Wagoner May 10, 1931 – December 16, 2019 Bobbie Warman November 24, 1927 – October 25, 2019 Darlyne Warrings June 21, 1944 – February 5, 2020 Fred Wohn October 19, 1940 – November 5, 2019 Corinne Wolins August 30, 1927 – October 20, 2019 Z Suzanne Zaffarano September 4, 1926 – August 20, 2019 Bells of Iowa State This online remembrance has been planned by the Memorial Day Committee of the ISU Retirees Association in coordination with the ISUAA staff and is sponsored by the ISU Retirees Association, a program of the ISU Alumni Association. Taps A special thank you to Green Hills Retirement Community for their ongoing support of the ISU Retirees and to the President’s Office for financial support. JoAnn Adair June 3, 1930 -- March 3, 2020 A Celebration of Life for JoAnn Adair, 84, of Story City formerly of Fort Dodge, will be 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 7, 2020, at the Gunderson Funeral Chapel with Rev. Brian Bopp, Hospice Chaplain of Suncrest Iowa Health and Hospice officiating. A time of gathering for family and friends will be from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on Saturday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services. A private burial will be held in North Lawn Cemetery in Fort Dodge. JoAnn Arlene Tesdall, the daughter of Arthur and Mable Tesdall, was born June 3, 1935, in Story City and graduated from Story City High School. In 1954, she married Maynard Adair and they moved to Fort Dodge in 1960. JoAnn was a very hard worker and helped her husband provide for their family. She worked as a secretary in Fort Dodge for the Iowa State University Extension Office and later worked at the Ames extension office retiring in January of 1993. In her younger years, JoAnn enjoyed being part of a bowling league. She enjoyed baking, cooking, reading and playing cards. Her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren have fond memories of playing cards with her. Her husband enjoyed gardening and she would can everything that he grew. Maynard died June 25, 1998. For the past several years JoAnn was a resident of the Eastern Star Mason Home in Boone, She passed away on Tuesday, March 3, 2020 at the Eastern Star Mason Home surrounded by her family. Survivors include her three children, Dean (Becky) Adair of Garfield, Arkansas, Timothy Adair of Webster City and Darla Mosbach (special friend Mark) of Webster City; six grandchildren and ten great grandchild; and her sister Leota Berg of Jewell. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two sisters Marjorie Dale and Ruth Stark and her brother Eugene Tesdall. Mary Atherly January 8, 1937 -- October 21, 2019 Mary E. Atherly, of Ames, Iowa enjoyed a long life and left this world on Oct 21st at the age of 82 as a result of Multiple System Atrophy. Mary, the first of 6 children of Dolores and Michael Klitch, was born January 8, 1937, at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond, Indiana just 45 minutes before her grandmother Mary Bogner's birthday on January 9. Mary was baptized at All Saints Church in Hammond where she later attended the church's school. At All Saints School Mary took music lessons from her aunt, Sister Anita Clare and played the organ at the school Chapel. During her youth her father's job took them to Ohio and Pennsylvania and later in 1948 to Kalamazoo, Michigan. There, Mary attended Mattawan School where, unknown to her at the time, she would meet her future husband, Alan Gerald Atherly. She later transferred to St. Augustine School in Kalamazoo. During her teen years Mary's family moved to Florence, Alabama where Mary attended Coffee High School. After her family returned to Kalamazoo, she graduated from St. Augustine High School in Kalamazoo, Michigan in June, 1954. On August 29, 1959 Mary and Alan exchanged wedding vows at St. Thomas Moore Chapel at Western Michigan University. Following Alan's graduation in January 1960, they moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where Alan attended graduate school while Mary worked at the North Carolina Memorial Hospital and attended classes in the evening. Mary said Alan's graduation gift was his daughter Jill Elizabeth who was born November 24, 1964. Following Alan's graduation, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio and on to Eugene, Oregon in 1966 before settling in Ames, Iowa in August 1968. Mary continued taking classes and received her bachelor's degree in 1971 from Western Michigan University. She and Alan took great joy in bringing home their son, Todd Alan who was born February 24, 1970. During her children's young years, Mary began volunteering at Crawford School and the League of Women Voters. She served on the Ames-ISU Bikeway Committee before running for 3rd Ward City Council seat which she won in 1978 and again in 1982. During these years Mary served as Mayor Goodland's Mayor-Pro-Tem for 6 years, on the Ames-ISU Transit Board and several other council committees. She chose not to run for City Council again after serving 8 years and instead turned her attention to her position at the University Museums at Iowa State University.