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Cleo Alice Tuttle, 31 Aug 1932 - 20 Apr 2017

TUTTLE, YOUNG, PATTERSON, SHERMAN, LYMAN, KOEHN, IMHOFF, BALLARD, HEAD, GRITMAN, SCHUTTERLE, SHAULL, WIEDEMEIER

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 4/19/2017 at 12:54:00

Funeral service for Cleo Tuttle, 84, Marengo, was held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 14, at First United Methodist Church, Marengo. She died Monday, April 20, 2017.

The Rev. Lisa Crow officiated at the service.

Burial was in the Marengo Cemetery.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, was in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be sent to www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Memorials may be made to the First United Methodist Church, Marengo, for the organ repair fund or the kitchen.

Cleo Alice Young was born Aug. 31, 1932, the daughter of Leo and Norma Patterson Young. She graduated from the Marengo High School in 1950 and married Howard Tuttle, Jr. on Dec. 28, 1951, at the First United Methodist Church in Marengo. She was a stay at home mom while the boys were attending school. She then was an executive secretary at Amana Refrigeration for 25 years.

She and Howard operated “The Dock” restaurant for many years in Marengo. She retired from Amana and immediately started as secretary for the Methodist Church. She also worked with Head Start, Subway and helped Kirby at Dusty’s restaurant. She was well known for her potato salad and had a good story to tell about that.

She collected dolls and had about 900 of them. She enjoyed birdwatching, singing with The Believers, played accordion, and taught piano lessons to her granddaughter. She and Howard enjoyed square dancing, playing cards and dice. They enjoyed traveling and wintered in Texas for 18 years. Most recently she could be found behind the deli counter at Big G.

But most of all, Cleo enjoyed her family and cherished each and every one of them. She was loved and will be missed by many.

Tuttle is survived by her sons, Kenneth (Carol) Tuttle and Kirby Tuttle, both Marengo; grandchildren, Tina (Rian) Sherman, Nathan (Jessica) Tuttle and Felicia Koehn; step-grandchildren, Chris (Kristy) Lyman, Amy Imhoff; great-grandchildren, Nessecity Tuttle, and Oliver Tuttle; two sisters, Carole (Richard) Ballard, Marengo, and Sherri Head, Cedar Falls; sisters-in-law, Sharon Tuttle, Jean (Robert) Gritman, Ann Schutterle, Shirley (Shorty) Shaull, and Betty (Larry) Wiedemeier; numerous nieces and nephews, and good friends, Penny Stephan, Donna and Lon Murley and Cindy Murley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, in 2012; her parents; one son, Kurtis, in 1990; a brother, Keith Young, and a brother, Garth, in infancy.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, 19 Apr 2017 pg 5
The Gazette, 12 Apr 2017, 9a [abbreviated]


 

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