Rebecca 'Becca' Imhoff, 23 Jun 1984 - 25 May 2021

IMHOFF, JACOBS, VAN ROEKEL, NUNNIKHOVEN, RUPE, GWIN

Posted By: Sarah Witte (email)
Date: 6/10/2021 at 12:30:18

Rebecca “Becca” Imhoff, age 36, passed away on Tuesday, May 25, 2021 at the St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at the Holland-Coble Funeral Home in Montezuma at 10:30 am. Visitation was Tuesday, June 1, beginning at noon with the family present from 5:00 to 7:00 pm at the Holland-Coble Funeral Home in Montezuma. Burial will be held in the Pleasant Township Cemetery at Ewart, Iowa.

Memorials may be directed to the family. Holland-Coble Funeral Home of Montezuma is in charge of the arrangements.

Rebecca “Becca” Lee Imhoff, was born on June 23, 1984, the daughter of Dennis Imhoff and Kimberly Jacobs Van Roekel in Iowa City, Iowa. Becca
attended and graduated from Montezuma High School with the class of 2004.

She took some child care classes from Iowa Valley Community College . She worked for a short time at Walmart and also babysat. Becca worked at the Ahrens Day Care in Grinnell until she was faced with health problems and loved caring for children and they loved her in return. She was a kid at heart.

Becca was born with Dextrocardia with situs inversus totalis which is a heart defect. She was a fighter and never let her health slow her down. She always stayed active and learned how to cherish life. She had a wonderful outlook on life and enjoyed fishing, camping, driving around listening to music, baking, cooking, and especially her dog, Maggie.

She entered St. Mary’s Hospital in August of 2017 and placed on a heart transplant list. Becca spent many hours baking and cooking for her friends at her hospital room and shared her Insta pot recipes with family, doctors and nurses. She had a lot of nerf ball fun and enjoyed her chirping frog.

Family was a huge part of her life and she loved her nieces and nephew. She was also a member of the Zipper Sisters, an organization of open heart surgery patients and a member of the Sully First Reformed Church.

She is survived by her parents, Kimberly (Neal) Van Roekel of Montezuma, Dennis (Cindy) Imhoff of Marengo; her sister, Hollie (Donavon) Nunnikhoven of Sully; her nieces and nephew, Zoey, HarLee and Blane Nunnikhoven of Sully; her brother, Tyler (Rachelle Rupe) Imhoff of Clinton, TN., her grandparents, Paul and SandraVan Roekel and Evan Gwin; and many other relatives and friends.

Rebecca is preceded in death by her paternal grandparents, Antone and Dorothy Imhoff, and David Peska; maternal grandparents, Ron Jacobs and Shirley Gwin.

Published in The Hometown Current on June 9, 2021.