Jean E. (SCHERER) CURRAN

SCHERER, CURRAN, SMITH, BOYD, HAVENER, CARNEY, GLEINSER, DOSE, HEATON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/25/2012 at 12:31:02

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Iowa
Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Jean E. (Scherer) Curran

Jean E. CURRAN, 80, of Mason City died Monday (May 4, 2009) at Kavanagh Hospice House in Des Moines.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 9, at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, with Pastor Glen BANDEL officiating. Inurnment will be held in the Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery Columbarium.

There will be no visitation.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa.

Jean was born on April 22, 1929 in Rochester, Minn., the daughter of John and Cora (SMITH) SCHERER. She attended school in Eyota, Minn., and graduated in 1947, she also attended Winona State University.

She was married to Bartley "Bart" W. CURRAN on Sept. 2, 1950, in Eyota. They lived in Eyota until moving to Mason City in 1954. Jean enjoyed being a wife and a mother and raising her family.

She loved needlework, knitting, enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren and attending their activities. Jean and her husband loved to travel and visited many places through the years. Most of all she enjoyed spending time with her family and friends and she will be dearly missed by all who knew and loved her.

She is survived by her children, Becky BOYD and husband, Mark, of Albert Lea, Minn., Betty HAVENER and husband, Denny, of Grapevine, Texas, Bonny CARNEY and husband, Chuck, of West Des Moines, Brad CURRAN and wife In Sun, of San Antonio, Texas; grandchildren, Kerry BOYD and wife, Allison, Kevin BOYD, Kelsey BOYD, Trisha GLEINSER and husband, Jonathan, Kami HAVENER, Shannon DOSE and husband, Tyler, Ryan CARNEY, Caitlin CARNEY, Sarah CURRAN, Joshua CURRAN, Daniel CURRAN and Luke CURRAN; great-grandchild, Connor BOYD; several brother and sisters-in-law; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Bart CURRAN, in 1996; and sister, Alice HEATON.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, April of 2012