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GERSEMA, Nellie R. (McCready) 1919-2005

GERSEMA, MCCREADY, BOWMAN, DUNCAN, KAMIENSKI, DEVORE, BARTZ, ZAJACKA

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 3/13/2015 at 23:34:45

[Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Friday, November 4, 2005]

CEDAR FALLS - Nellie R. Gersema, 86, of Cedar Falls, died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2005, at Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo.

She was born April 18, 1919, in Waterloo, daughter of Charles E. and Hazel Bowman McCready. She married Delos M. Gersema on July 18, 1947, in Waterloo. He died Feb. 8, 2004.

Mrs. Gersema graduated from Waterloo West High School in 1938 and was a full-time homemaker for many years. From 1977 until retiring in 1994, she and her husband owned and operated the Royal Rest Hotel, Chariton.

Survivors include two sons, David (Kathy) of Santa Monica, Calif., and William of Cedar Rapids; two daughters, Susan (Jim) Duncan of Round Rock, Texas, and Vicki (Kevin) Kamienski of Cedar Falls; 12 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren; a sister, Phyllis DeVore of Des Moines; and a brother, Charles (Joan) McCready of Denver, Iowa.

Preceded in death by three brothers, Forrest, Eddy and Delbert McCready; and two sisters, Delores Bartz and Verda Mae Zajacka.

Services: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Dahl-Van Hove-Schoof Funeral Home, with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today and for an hour before services Saturday at the funeral home.

Memorials may be directed to Western Home Communities.


 

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