MONTGOMERY, Winnifred F.

MONTGOMERY, MOREY, ARRASMITH, FISCHER, LIVINGSTON, SORENSEN, MITCHELL, MOREY, WILSON, RUNDELL, BRYANT, BASTADY

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 8/25/2008 at 07:40:03

WINNIFRED F. MONTGOMERY
(June 13, 1913 - August 22, 2008)

WINNIFRED F. MONTGOMERY, 95, of Cherokee, Iowa passed away Friday, August 22, 2008 at Careage Hills in Cherokee.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, August 26th at 10 a.m. at the Meriden Evangelical Free Church. Pastor Larry Ostercamp and Mr. Lewis Leeds will officiate. Burial will be in the Cedar Cemetery at Larrabee, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 9:45 a.m. at the Church on Tuesday. Visitation will be on Monday from 10 a.m. until 9 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee with the family present from 6:30 p.m. until 8 p.m. On line condolences may be sent to www.boothbyfuneral.com.

Winnifred was born June 13, 1913 at Larrabee, Iowa to Clarence and Della (Morey) Arrasmith. Her mother died on February 12, 1920 and her father on May 23, 1927. Her uncle and aunt, Irvin and Leona Morey adopted her. She accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as her Savior at the age of 8 years old and was baptized at the Christian Church in Larrabee. She graduated from Larrabee High School in 1931. She took the summer teacher’s course at Buena Vista College in Storm Lake and taught at Spring Center country school five miles east of Larrabee for 3 years. She was married to Clarence Edward Montgomery on May 28, 1934 at Larrabee, Iowa. The couple lived on a farm close to the Little Sioux River east of Sutherland, Iowa. The lived in the Sutherland area until 1946, when they moved to a farm by Larrabee. In 1951, they moved to a farm at Astoria, South Dakota. After Clarence suffered a heart attack, they moved back to Cherokee in 1959. Winnifred worked at Gregg’s Hilltop Nursing Home (now Careage Hills) for 18 years, retiring in 1978. Winnie spent winters in California with Nell and Shirley until 1996. Following a stroke, she moved in with her daughter Ann and Paul Fischer. In 2001, she entered Careage Hills. She was a member of the Heritage Bible Church, the Women’s Missionary Society and five different Day Clubs.

Through the years, she liked to crochet, make fabric and porcelain dolls, do gardening with flowers and vegetables, read books, was the Church organist and pianist, taught Sunday School and Daily vacation Bible school and had Good News Clubs until she was in her 80’s.

She was preceded in death by her husband on February 22, 1987, one daughter Carol Livingston, one granddaughter Yvette Livingston, one great granddaughter Stephanie Renee Fischer, three sons-in-laws Lyle Sorensen, Allen Livingston, and Jack Mitchell; two sisters Nellie Morey and Della Wilson; one brother and sister-in-law Joseph and Ann Morey; two brothers-in-law Wally Rundell and Gordon Bryant.

She is survived by her children and their spouses: Margaret Ann & Paul Fischer of Cherokee, Iowa; Nellie Mitchell of Fullerton, California; Harvey & Anna Marie Montgomery of Elkton, S.D.; Shirley & Don Bastady of Porterville, CA; George & Linda Montgomery of Brookings, SD.; 16 grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren, 4 great great grandchildren; two sisters Peggy Bryant of Whitmore Lake, MI., and Shirley Rundell of Moville, IA and many nieces and nephews.