Barbara Victoria Granaman Hermann 1928-2012

HERMANN, CURRY, DOYLE, GRANAMAN

Posted By: Deb (email)
Date: 3/24/2015 at 21:28:08

Barbara Victoria Granaman Hermann, age 84, of Mediapolis, formerly of Sperry and Mission, Texas, died Monday afternoon, December 17, 2012, at the Prairie Ridge Care and Rehab in Mediapolis. The daughter of James and Victoria Curry Doyle, she was born on July 28, 1928, in Oledbolt, Iowa. Barbara married Louis Granaman on August 7, 1949, in Burlington. He died April 16, 1988. She married William Hermann on July 10, 1993, in Sperry. He died in January of 2008.

She graduated from Burlington High School in 1947. She was a homemaker and farm wife and had worked at Champion Spark Plug in Burlington for 17 years. Barbara was a member of the Sperry United Methodist Church and had attended the United Presbyterian Church in Mission, Texas. She loved sewing, bowling, travelling, golfing and living in Mission, Texas for several years. She moved back to Iowa in 2009.

Her family includes a daughter, Sheila and Sam Schnedler of Sperry; two grandsons, Alex Schnedler and Nathan and Erin Schnedler, both of Sperry; three great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Norma Hines of Donnellson, LaVonne Miller of Comfort, Texas, and Dorothy Meyer of Grand Saline, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents and both husbands.

Following cremation, a memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 28, 2012, at the Sperry United Methodist Church, with Rev. Jeff Kodis officiating. Burial will follow at the Old Stone Cemetery, rural Sperry.