Grace Ackerman, 1915-2005

ACKERMAN

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 1/21/2009 at 20:19:05

Grace Adaline Carlisle, the daughter of Alfred and Sarah (Lubke) Carlisle, was born June 11, 1915, at Whittemore, Iowa. She departed this life on Sunday, June 12, 2005, at the Good Samaritan Center in Estherville, Iowa, at the age of 90 years old.

Grace received her education in the Whittemore Public Schools and graduated from high school in 1933. She attended Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa and later taught in the Central School in rural Burt, Iowa.

On May 23, 1936, Grace was united in marriage to Earl (Muggs) Ackerman at Dakota City, Iowa. The couple farmed north and west of Burt until 1945. They moved to a farm east and south of Burt where she lived until Earl's death in 1982. Grace then moved to the U.R. Home Apartments in Burt and in 1988 moved to Algona. In 1995, she moved to Estherville and has been a resident in the Friendship Terrace Apartments at Good Samaritan until the time of her death.

Grace is survived by four daughters, Janet Gilliland of Estacada, Oregon; Shirley Moore and her husband, Norman of Payette, Idaho; JoAnne Scharn and her husband, Dale of Lytton, Iowa and Nancy Fry of Estherville; nine grandchildren, Vicky Nelson and her husband, Larry of Titonka, Iowa; Rick Schuller and his wife, Deb of Burt; Tom Schuller and his wife, Deb of Jackson, Minnesota; Julie Barnes and her husband, Jeff of Dike, Iowa; Jeff Schuller of Buffalo Center, Iowa; Teresa Scharn of West Des Moines, Iowa; Tonya Scharn of Sac City, Iowa; Angela Fry and Carrie Fry of Clive, Iowa; twelve great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.

Grace was preceded in death by her parents, husband, one brother Gordon; three sisters, Mildred, Ruth and Beulah and son-in-law, Stephen Fry.