Woodruff, Geraldine O. – 1926-2018

BENTLEY, BUCHOLZ, GREENE, KASEMEIER, STUFFLEBEAM, WOODRUFF, ZINN

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:30

Geraldine “Geri” O. Woodruff, 91, of Newton, died Sunday, April 15, 2018, at Grinnell Healthcare Center. A funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday, April 20 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory. The family will greet friends after the service at the funeral home. A private family burial will be at Willow Lawn Cemetery in Plainfield. Memorials to Grinnell Healthcare Center, 415 Sixth Ave. W. Grinnell, IA 50112, may be left at the funeral home.
Geri, the daughter of Otto and Viola (Bucholz) Zinn, was born Aug. 25, 1926, in Waverly. She graduated from Plainfield High School. Geri was united with marriage to C. Lowell Woodruff June 17, 1946, in Plainfield. They moved to Newton in 1976. Geri was a bank teller at the Jasper County Savings Bank for 18 years, retiring in 2002.
Those left to honor Geri’s memory are her niece, Sonja (Lawrence) Greene of Scottsdale, Ariz.; and her two nephews, Fred (Linda) Bentley of Iowa City and Dennis (Pam) Bentley of Horseshoe Bay, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Lowell in 2004; two sisters, Lillian Stufflebeam and La Vonna Kasemeier.
The family would like our sincerest thanks to be given the staff at Grinnell Healthcare Center for their loving care of Geri during her final year of life. Their compassion and attention to her special needs went beyond what we could have asked for her.
Source: Newton Daily News; April 17, 2018