Verta M. Kress

KRESS, HART, WYATT, ISRAEL, TIMM, FRENCH

Posted By: dbeier (email)
Date: 2/28/2008 at 21:59:49

Quasqueton - Verta M. Kress, 81 years old, of rural Quasqueton, Iowa, died on Sunday, May 28, 2006, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, following a sudden illness.

She was born on August 30, 1924, in Greene, Iowa, the daughter of Isaac H. and Alice (Hart) Wyatt. She moved with her family to Waterloo, Iowa, when she was only 3 years old. She graduated from the East High School in Waterloo and then, attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She continued at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, and earned a B.A. degree in Elementary Education.

On July 22, 1950, she and Robert Grant Kress were married in Marshalltown, Iowa. They lived in Waterloo, Iowa, where Mrs. Kress taught school for 14 years. In 1967, they moved to rural Quasqueton, Iowa, and Mrs. Kress taught 4th grade at East Buchanan School in Winthrop, Iowa. After teaching there for 14 years, she retired in 1982. She was a member of the National Education Association, the Union Church of Quasqueton, and the Union Church Ladies Aid. She especially enjoyed reading, bird watching, playing cribbage, and spending time with family and friends.

Mrs. Kress is survived by 1 son, Robert G. (Cathann) Kress, Jr., of Huntingtown, Maryland, 1 daughter, Susan (Kenneth) Kress-Israel of Ames, Iowa, and 5 grandchildren, Nile, Payden, and Wren Kress and Emma and Sarah Israel. She is also survived by 1 sister, Carol Timm of Kansas City, Kansas.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Grant (in 2001), her parents, 2 brothers, Andrew Wyatt and Lincoln French, and 1 sister, Fern Wyatt.
Funeral Services were held at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, June 6, 2006, at the Union Church in Quasqueton, Iowa, with Rev. Kevin Jennings officiating. Burial was in Quasqueton Cemetery in Quasqueton, Iowa.