Leta Blanche Armstrong Sanders (1909 - 2002)
ARMSTRONG, SANDERS, SMITH, REYNOLDS, FORD, DEWITT, TAYLOR, GARRIS, WILSON, BARR, FOUCHE
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Date: 11/25/2010 at 23:02:47
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Leta Blanche Armstrong Sanders
Leta Blanche Sanders, daughter of John William and Margaret Agusta Smith Reynolds, was born Oct. 28, 1909, in Warren County and died Dec. 18, 2002, at the Osceola Nursing and Rehab Center in Osceola. She was 93.Leta received her education in the New Virginia Schools and graduated with the class of 1926.
She was a stencil file clerk for Look Magazine in Des Moines and also worked at the Martin Bomber Plant in Omaha, Neb. during World War II.She lived in St. Charles and Des Moines before moving to Osceola in 1982.
She married Boyd Armstrong on Feb. 22, 1930. She married Calvern Sanders on Oct. 1, 1991.
Mrs. Sanders was a former member of the CWF and Women’s Relief Corp in New Virginia. She was also a member of the First Christian Church in Osceola and taught Sunday School for many years.
Leta had a wonderful sense of humor and always had a loving smile. She loved her flower garden and enjoyed reading and traveling.
In addition to her husbands, Boyd in 1983 and Calvern in 2001, she was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Maxine Reynolds in infancy, Veniece Ford, Alta DeWitt and Pearl Taylor; two brothers, Elbert and Harry Reynolds; a brother-in-law, Jessie Armstrong; and a sister-in-law, Pearl Reynolds.
Mrs. Sanders is survived by a sister, Eva Garris of Osceola and Faye Wilson of Indianola; a brother, Fayne Reynolds of Osceola; two brothers-in-law, Paul Sanders and his wife, Willene Sanders, of Osceola, Harold Sanders and his wife, Leona Sanders, of Spokane, Wash. and Forest Sanders and his wife, Betty Sanders, of Green City, Mo.; two sisters-in-law, Edna Barr and Frances Fouche, both of Osceola; as well as nieces; nephews; cousins and friends.
A memorial service for Mrs. Sanders was held at Kale Funeral Home on Dec. 23, the Rev. Phil Coe of the First Christian Church officiating. Organist was Pennie Gonseth.
Interment of the cremains was in the St. Charles Cemetery.
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