Jean Elaine (SJOSTRAND) FULLER BERRY

SJOSTRAND, FULLER, BERRY, LARSON, WHITEHURST, LOUX, KAHLER, ROBEOLTMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/5/2011 at 13:59:21

Obituary - Jean Elaine (Sjostrand) Fuller Berry

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Thursday, December 18, 2009

MASON CITY — Jean Elaine BERRY, 86, of Mason City, died Tuesday (Dec. 16, 2008) at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with Pastor Steve PALO of Trinity Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Hillside Cemetery in Sheffield.

Visitation will be held 4 to 6 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home and also one hour prior to the service. Memorials may be directed to the Jean Elaine Berry Memorial Fund in care of the family.

Jean was born June 26, 1922, in rural Mason City, the daughter of Carl E. and Signe (LARSON) SJOSTRAND. She attended and graduated from Sheffield High School. She was married to Cecil FULLER on Jan. 29, 1942, in Albert Lea, Minn.; to this union two children, Dennis and Gary, were born.

After Cecil's death in 1950 she then married H. Blake BERRY on Aug. 20, 1954, in Columbia, Mo.; to this union their daughter, Suzann, was born. She lived in Mason City for more than 45 years and worked at Marshall and Swift Cleaners for three years and also Barons for three years.MO< Jean also was a full-time mother and housewife. She enjoyed crossword puzzles, visiting and having coffee with family and friends, and just being at home. Family was important to her, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she enjoyed the times she spent with them. She will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her children, Dennis FULLER and wife, Connie, of Mason City, Gary FULLER and wife, Carol, of Mason City, Suzann WHITEHURST and husband, Jay, of Mason City; five grandchildren: Dawn LOUX and husband, Dino, of Clear Lake, Holly KAHLER and husband, Chad, of Mason City, Cody and Jesse WHITEHURST of Mason City and Graham FULLER of Des Moines; five great-grandchildren: Jade and Myah LOUX, Mac, Samuel and Kylie KAHLER; brother, Elmer SJOSTRAND and wife, Dorothy, of Rockwell; and sister-in-law, Betty SJOSTRAND of Mason City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Cecil FULLER Jr. in 1950, and H. Blake BERRY in 1998; sister, June ROBEOLTMAN; and two brothers, Donald SJOSTRAND and Robert SJOSTRAND.

Major Erickson Funeral Home and Crematory, 641-423-0924, www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2011