Ryan, Sonya S.

RYAN, GRIMM, ETZEL, ROMIG

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/27/2013 at 15:03:47

Sonya S. Ryan, 71, 1314 2nd Ave. N., Clear Lake, Iowa, died Sunday, Sept. 2,
2012 at her daughter, Shelly Kirk’s, home in Thompson, Iowa. A funeral service
was held Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 at the First Baptist Church, Mason City, Iowa
with Rev. Ron Stein officiating. Interment was at the Clear Lake Cemetery.
Memorials may be given to the First Baptist Church or the Humane Society.

Sonya was born Oct. 28, 1940 in Mason City, the daughter of Roger and Jane
(Etzel) Grimm. She graduated from Mason City High School in 1958. Sonya married
Larry Romig and they lived in Clear Lake. While living in Clear Lake she
volunteered for the First Congregational Church and the Holt adoption agency for
many years. She was a CNA for home health nursing agency’s. Later in life she
and her husband, Greg, owned and operated Mr. K’s in Buffalo Center, Iowa from
1997-2005.

Sonya married Greg Ryan July 25, 1989 in Phoenix, Ariz. They lived there four
years and then moved back to Clear Lake. She was a peer facilitator at Prairie
Ridge, loved animals and spending time with her family. Sonya attended First
Baptist Church in Mason City.

Sonya is survived by her husband, Greg Ryan, Clear Lake; two daughters, Tawnya
Gene Romig-Foster and her husband, Tad, Lakewood, Colo., and Shelly Diane Kirk
and her husband, Mike Mathis, Thompson; two brothers, Roger Grimm, Mich., and
Doug Grimm, Forest City, Iowa; two sisters, Diane Bailey, Clear Lake, and Arnita
Meinders, Thornton, Iowa; five grandchildren, Christopher, Shawn, Joshua and
Jessica Kirk and Finn Foster; one great-grandson, Cooper Kirk; and several
nieces and nephews.

Sonya was preceded in death by her parents, and one brother, Morton Grimm.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, Clear Lake, was in charge of arrangements.