Sherman, Etta (1913-2010)

SHERMAN, TAPPER, VAN HEIDEN, LUPPES, UTTER, CARTER, ROBERTS, STUDLEY, BERNARD

Posted By: Colleen Ossman (email)
Date: 11/10/2010 at 18:55:44

Webster City Daily Freeman Journal, October 27, 2010.

Etta Sherman, 97, of Iowa Falls, Iowa, passed away Sunday, October 24, 2010, at Scenic Manor, Iowa Falls. Funeral services for Etta Sherman will be 11:00 am Thursday at the First Christian Church, 221 Fischer Avenue, Iowa Falls with Pastor T. J. Norman officiating. A time of visitation will from 5:00 to 8:00 pm Wednesday at the Linn's Funeral Home, 1521 Washington Avenue, Iowa Falls. Burial will be at the Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Kamrar, Iowa.

Henrietta Antonetta Tapper, the daughter and youngest child of Harm and Antje [Van Heiden] Tapper, was born February 10, 1913, on the Harm Tapper farm southeast of Webster City in Independence Township. Her father and her four grandparents all immigrated to Iowa from Ostfriesland, Germany. She attended Prairie Lawn rural school and graduated from Webster City Lincoln High School in 1931. After graduation she lived with her parents and worked near home.

In 1936/37, she attended and graduated from Pitze's Beauty School in Waterloo, Iowa. She then worked at a beauty shop in Parkersburg which she later purchased and operated at Etta's Beauty Shop from 1938 to 1941. In Parkersburg she met her husband Raymond (Bud) Sherman and they married on June 26, 1938 in Spirit Lake, Iowa. In 1941 they moved to California where Etta worked in a defense plant, Aluminum Company of America in Los Angeles. She later moved back to Iowa and worked at Whaley's Beauty Shop in Webster City. After the war in 1946 they lived in Webster City, Iowa Falls, and Muscatine. They then resided in Boone from 1947 to 1957. The marriage ended and Etta moved to Iowa Falls in June of 1959 where she had purchased a beauty shop. She opened and operated Etta's Beauty Shop from August 1959 to 1996. The shop was first located in the Simcox building on Oak Street and was later mover to the Clair Simcox Office Building at 411 Oak Street. She lived in the back of the shop for 3 1/2 years. In January 1964, Etta purchased her home on 301 Western Avenue, where she remodeled the garage into her Etta's Beauty Shop. In 2008 she moved to the Scenic Manor Care Facility.

She grew up attending the Kamrar German Presbyterian Church and was a member of the First Christian Church of Iowa Falls. She enjoyed growing flowers and doing her own yard work. She loved fishing and went on many fishing trips with her nephew Raymond Luppes and his family.

Etta Sherman is survived by her nephews and nieces: Raymond (Nadine) Luppes of Webster City, Roger (Linda) Tapper of Webster City, Donna (Gail) Utter of Novato, California, Connie Carter of Blairsburg, and Raymond Tapper of San Clemente, California; her sister-in-law: Doratha Tapper of Iowa Falls, and her good friends: James and Linda Mason of Iowa Falls.

She was preceded in death by her parents: Harm and Antje Tapper; her sisters and brother-in-laws: Hilka (Harme) Luppes, Anna Tapper and Jen (Lloyd) Roberts; her brothers and sisters-in-laws: Sye Tapper and Harm (Catherine) Tapper; and her nieces and nephews: Erma (George) Studley, Eleanor (Frances) Bernard, JoAnn Luppes and Melroy Luppes.

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