KEMMERER, Evelyn "Jeanette" 1920-2013
KEMMERER, SWITZER, NELSON, GREENE, RICKERT, NESBIT
Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/29/2013 at 23:16:23
[Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier, Sunday, May 12, 2013]
WATERLOO — E. Jeanette Kemmerer, 92, of Waterloo, died Friday, May 10, 2013, at Friendship Village Health Center.
She was born Aug. 27, 1920, in Nevada, daughter of Sam and Mattie Nelson Switzer. She married George L. Kemmerer on Aug. 29, 1954, in Nevada. He died April 29, 1987.
She graduated from Iowa State University in 1942 with a bachelor’s degree in home economics education. She taught home economics in Denmark, Iowa, for a year and then went into food service supervision at various government cafeterias in Washington, D.C., including the Pentagon. She then went into food management at Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., and at the University of California in Berkley. Mrs. Kemmerer completed her work years as assistant manager for the school lunch program in the Berkley public school system.
Mrs. Kemmerer was very active in both the Kimball Avenue and former Grace United Methodist churches. She was president of the U.M. Women’s Organization in the Grace United Methodist Church. She was a member and past president of the Black Hawk County Iowa State Women’s Club and a former member and secretary of the YWCA board. She also served Meals on Wheels in Black Hawk County for 25 years
Survived by two daughters, Karen Greene of Waterloo and Luann (Bruce) Rickert of Davenport; three grandchildren, Ellen, Lizz and John Rickert; two brothers, Carl (Juanita) Switzer of Nevada and Dr. Richard (Patti) Switzer of Tucson, Ariz.; and a sister-in-law, Zanita Switzer of Paris, Texas.
Preceded in death by two brothers, Samuel Switzer and one in infancy; and a sister, Frances (Robert) Nesbit.
Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday at Kimball Avenue United Methodist Church, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation from 4 to 6 p.m. today at Hagarty–Waychoff–Grarup Funeral Service on West Ridgeway and for an hour before services Monday at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the church.
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