Phyllis Misbach Lutter 1912-1991

LUTTER, MISBACH, MOSES, WALLACE, VARNADO, FRETWELL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 7/8/2012 at 17:42:36

Longtime Anchorage resident Phyllis M. Lutter, 78, a retired day care provider, died Jan. 22 at Providence Hospital. A memorial service was held at the Anchorage Pioneer Home.

Mrs. Lutter was born Dec. 1, 1912, in Algona, Iowa. She had been a resident of Alaska since 1967. She was a graduate of the University of Minnesota and did her post-graduate work at the University of Oregon and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She married Reuben Lutter in 1938 in Minneapolis. He died in 1978. She had lived in Delta Junction for one year and in Anchorage for 21 years. Since 1983, she had lived in the Anchorage Pioneers Home. She was a school teacher in Iowa until 1967 and also taught school in Delta Junction. Mrs. Lutter was a day care provider at the Hillcrest Day Care Center in Anchorage and a senior companion at the Anchorage Pioneers Home. She retired from Hillcrest in 1979. She had been a member of Alaska Prospectors and the Older Persons Action Group. She had received volunteer awards from the Retired Senior Volunteer Program and was active in the Republican Party. Mrs. Lutter enjoyed traveling, reading, music, crocheting, swimming, golf and traveling. Mrs. Lutter did volunteer work at the Visitor Information Center in Anchorage.

She is survived by her daughters, Ann Wallace of Estherville, Iowa, Jean Varnado of Waterloo, Iowa, and Judith Moss of Olympia Fields, Ill.; her brother, William Misbach of Del Mar, Calif.; her sister, Corrine Fretwell of Cambria, Calif.; five grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. Her cremated remains were sent to the Oak Hill Cemetery in Estherville for burial. Arrangements were by Kehl's Forest Lawn Mortuary and Crematory. (Anchorage Daily News, Anchorage, AK, January 30, 1991)

Phyllis Lutter
Anchorage, Alaska – Phyllis Lutter, a former Estherville resident, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1991 in Anchorage, Alaska where she was a member of the Pioneer Home.

She was born December 1, 1912 to Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Misbach and grew up in northern Iowa and southern Minnesota. She married Reuben Lutter and they farmed near Ledyard; later both taught music and she also became an elementary school teacher. She taught in Gruver, Lone Rock, Fenton, Seneca, Dolliver, Graettinger and in Alaska. She worked in the nursery at the day care center near Elmendorf Base in Anchorage. Her volunteer work included working as librarian at the Senior Citizen Center and as a Senior Companion, which included reading aloud the entire Bible to a friend in Pioneer Home.

Survivors are three daughters: Mrs. Michael (Judy) Moses, Olympia Fields, Ill.; Mrs. Jean Varnado, Waterloo and Mrs. Ann Wallace, Estherville; five grandchildren; one great-grandchild; a brother, Dr. William Misbach of California; a sister, Mrs. Kent Fretwell, California; a sister-in-law, Mrs. John Misbach, Fairmont, Minn. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, Febraury 6, 1991)