Lenore Lucille Pearson, 02 Mar 1925 - 23 Dec 2016

PEARSON, HERMAN GUTH, SCOFIELD, PETTUS, EICKSTAEDT, HOWELL, TIBBETTS, LAMPRECHT, HOLST, SNIDER

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 2/1/2017 at 13:28:49

Private services for Lenore L. Herman Pearson, 91, Marion, formerly of Ladora and Marengo, were held Friday, Dec. 30, at Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo. She died Friday, Dec. 23, 2016, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids.

Pastor Eddie Thomas officiated at the service.

Burial was in the Marengo Cemetery. A celebration of life service will be at a later date.

A memorial fund has been established.

Online condolences may be left at www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Lenore Lucille Herman, was born March 2, 1925, in Oxford, the daughter of Melvin John and Ernestine Caroline Guth Herman. She graduated from the Marengo High School and later received her degree from the Iowa State Teachers College.

She married Chester Pearson on Dec. 21, 1946. She was a teacher and a loving mother and housewife. She belonged to the Marengo Church of the Nazarene. She was an avid reader, a wonderful cook and a great gardener and loved to share Jesus’s love with everyone.

Pearson is survived by her daughters, Amy Scofield, of The Village, Fla., and Kathy (Ed III) Pettus, Hiawatha; five grandchildren, Tracey (Troy) Eickstaedt, Tallasasse, Fla.; Amber (Donovan) Howell, Tallahasse; Shane (Ashley) Scofield, Valrico, Fla.; Edward (Lani) Pettus IV, Cedar Rapids, and Michael Pettus, Cedar Rapids; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ruth Mary Tibbetts and Marcia (Butch) Lamprecht, and a brother, Norman (Jan) Herman.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Chester, in April 2016; her parents, a son-in-law, Rick Scofield, in October 2016; five brothers, Earl, Dean, Elmer, Gerald and Keith Herman; a sister, Kathryn Holst; two brothers-in-law, Clyde Pearson and James Tibbetts, and a sister-in-law, Erma Snider.

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