Mavis L. Dummermuth 1924-2004

YUNKER, DURSCHER, DUMMERMUTH, STEERE, ANDERSON

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 6/12/2008 at 09:25:17

Mavis L. Dummermuth

Funeral services were held for Mavis L. Dummermuth at 2:00 p.m. February 24, 2004 at the Elgin Lutheran Church, Elgin, Iowa, with interment in the Elgin City Cemetery, Elgin, Iowa, with the Leonard Funeral Home of Elgin, Iowa in charge of arrangements.

Mavis Lorraine Durscher Dummermuth, age 79, left her earthly home on February 20, 2004. The daughter of Clara Yunker Durscher and Walter Durscher, Mavis was born on December 28, 1924 in Rock Valley, Iowa before the family moved to the Elgin/Clermont/West Union area. After graduating from Elgin High School, Mavis married Conner H. Dummermuth on August 25, 1943. To this blessed union, four children were born: Connie, David, Kim, and Chris.

Mavis and Conner farmed their entire forty-six years of marriage, and Mavis continued farming with son, Kim, after Conner’s death on April 11, 1989. Her family, the Dummermuth farm, the extended Elgin community, and valued friends and neighbors meant the world to Mavis. She was a member of Elgin Lutheran Church and a Board Director of First National Bank of West Union, Iowa.

Mavis was preceded in death by her parents, Clara and Walter, her brother Wayne Durscher, and her husband, Conner.

Living on and missing Mavis’s earthly presence are her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren: daughter, Connie Steere, and husband Keith of Kingsport, TN, their children Ryan with wife Shaunna and their daughters Kersten and Alyse of Baltimore, Maryland and Courtney of Knoxville, Tennessee; son, David, and wife Darla of Crawford, Colorado; son, Kim, and wife Lois of Elgin, Iowa, their children Matt with wife Becky of Washington DC, Chad and wife Mandy of Ankeny, Iowa, Drew and wife Kellie and their daughters, Laurel and Alaine of Cascade, Montana, Kari of Ames, Iowa, and Brooke, Elgin, Iowa; son, Chris, of London, England and his daughter, Anna, of Quincy, Illinois. She is also survived by her sister, Neva Anderson, and husband Arvid of Sun City, Arizona, and sister-in-law Ann Durscher of West Union, Iowa.

Extracted from a Leonard Funeral Home Brochure. Submitter is not related and has no further information.