Greenslade, Lavina Jeanette (Rassman) 1926-2011

GREENSLADE, SHORT, RASSMAN, FRAVEL, WILLIAMS, HELLER, BOTTCHER

Posted By: Jill McCarville (email)
Date: 9/12/2013 at 16:14:02

CRESCO- Funeral services for Lavine J. Greenslade of Cresco were held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Cresco. Interment was in Ridgeway Cemetery in Ridgeway.

Lindstrom Funeral Home in Cresco handled the arrangements.

Lavine, 85, died Friday, March 4, 2011 at the Regional Health Services of Howard County in Cresco.

Lavine Jeanette Greenslade was born Jan. 31, 1926 the daughter of Fred and Alice (Short) Rassman, Jr. Upon Lavine's parents deaths on October 14, 1933, she and her brother Kenneth were raised by their grandparents, Fred and Anna Rassman, Sr. Lavine attended Howard County grade school and graduated Cresco High School in 1944. She worked at Kellow's Grocery Store and the Cresco Bank. She also drove school bus for 33 years.

On June 20, 1945 she married LuVerne Greenslade. They farmed in the Cresco area for over 41 years. Playing cards was a favorite pastime of Lavine's and she held the position of Treasurer for the group.

She is survived by one daughter: Ann (John) Fravel of Sedalia, Mo.; one son: Gerald (Starla) of Cresco: grandchildren: Darrin Fravel of Chillocothe, Mo., Lori Williams of Kansas City, Mo., Jesse (Jolynn) Fravel of Sedalia, Mo., Jennifer (Lee) Heller of Ankeny, Jordan Greenslade of Cresco, and Joshua Greenslade of Cresco; great grandchildren: Tiffany Bottcher of Kansas City, Mo., Brooke and Jake Williams of Kansas City, Mo., and Alyssa Fravel of Sedalia, Mo.,; her brother Kenneth (Arlene) Rassman of Grover Beach, Calif.,; along with numerous cousins in the Owatonna, Minn. area.

She was preceded in death by her husband, LuVerne on July 24, 1990: a son: Dennis on July 20, 1968; and her parents.

Times Plain Dealer March 9, 2011
Transcribed by Jill McCarville from the files of Janice Sowers