BROWN-MEADE, Wanda M. (JONES)

JONES, BROWN, MEADE, WALTON, SCHAAFSMA, LEUCI, SCHNAKENBERG, LARSON, ARENDS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/18/2016 at 16:27:58

Obituary ~ Wanda M. (Jones) Brown-Meade
May 04, 1923 ~ July 30, 2009

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Monday, August 03, 2009

MASON CITY — Wanda M. Brown-Meade, 86, of Mason City, died Thursday (July 30, 2009) at the Good Shepherd Health Center.

Memorial services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009, at the First United Methodist Church- Wayside Chapel, 119 S. Georgia Ave., with Chaplain Emily Devine, RSM, officiating. Inurnment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery.

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

Wanda was born on May 4, 1923, in Thornton, the daughter of William E. and Mabel “Peg” (Walton) Jones. Wanda graduated from Mason City High School in 1941 and then Hamilton’s Business College in 1942. She worked for Interstate Power until 1945.

Wanda was married to E. Warren Brown on June 11, 1945, in Mason City. She then worked for the First National Bank for 17 years, Bob Schukei Ford for 12 years and then the Iowa Kemper Insurance Co. retiring in 1985.

She married Edward Lewis Meade on Oct. 6, 1990, in Mason City. Wanda enjoyed her retirement, spending the winters in Florida. She was very active in the Pilot Club of Mason City, past International President of the Credit Women Professionals from 1971- 1972, Emeritus Member of the Local Credit Women Professionals, and a member of the First United Methodist Church.

Wanda is survived by one nephew, Richard L. Jones and wife, Barbara, of Las Vegas, Nev.; two nieces, Sandra Schaafsma of Sacramento, Calif., and Susan Leuci of New Port News, Va.; one stepson, Joel Meade and wife Marilyn of Lemars; one stepdaughter, Mary Schnakenberg and husband, Carl, of Chicago, Ill.; four stepgrandsons, Kurt and Peter Schnakenberg and Thomas and Colin Meade; one step-grandaughter, Kate Schnakenberg; one godchild, Lane Larson of Sheffield; a special cousin, Anna Arends of Mason City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, E. Warren Brown in 1986, and Edward L. Meade in 1996, and her brother, Donald L. Jones.

Major Erickson Funeral Home, 641-423-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016