BOHN, Meta Marie (1907-1999)

BOHN, STRAATMAN, LEMKE, TOMPKINS, BAHLMAN, YANOSKI

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/18/2013 at 00:03:23

META M. BOHN

GARNER - Meta M. Bohn, 91, of Garner, passed away Monday (Aug. 23, 1999) at the Concord Care Center, Garner.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Kay Hooper officiating. Interment will be at the Concord Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel, Garner and will continue one hour prior to services on Thursday at the church.

Meta Marie Bohn, the daughter of Reinhold R. and Minnie (Straatman) Lemke, was born Dec. 5, 1907, on a farm in Liberty Township, south of Garner. She attended rural school in Liberty Township and graduated from Garner High School in 1926. She taught rural schools for four years.

On May 26, 1930, she was married to Carl W. Bohn in Des Moines. They made their home in Garner. In 1933, Carl and Meta purchased the funeral home and furniture store from Rex Shannon. They continued to operate the Bohn Funeral Home until they retired in 1976.

Meta enjoyed her family, church work and cooking. She was a member of the United Methodist Church and the UMW. She was a 50-year member of the Eastern Star and a member of a homemakers group.

She is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth L. Tompkins and her husband, Claire, of Garner; and a son, Richard G. Bohn and his wife, Karen, of Duncanville, Texas; eight grandchildren, Jay Tompkins, Julie Bahlmann and her husband, Richard, Steve Bohn and his wife, Jackie, and their son, Jackson, Alan Bohn and his wife, Pamela, Michael Bohn and his wife, Nancy, and their children, Brandon, Aaron and Karissa, Richard E. Bohn and his wife, Sue, and their daughter, Jeni, Christina Chapman and her husband, Todd and their children, Brittany, Kendra and Meagan and Ted Bohn; and a special family member, Missy Bohn.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl, Feb. 20, 1999; her parents; two brothers, Walter Lemke and Reuben Lemke; and a sister, Irene Yanoski.