Steward, Wanda F. (Van Wyngarden) 1909-2004

STEWARD, VAN WYNGARDEN, ROHRDANZ, MAGNUS, BRODERSON

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 5/16/2005 at 09:18:47

Wanda F. Steward (Van Wyngarden)

Newton (IA) Daily News, Tuesday, May 4, 2004

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Wanda Fern Steward, 94, of Arkansas City, Kan., formerly of Jasper County, died Saturday, May 1, at the South Central Regional Hospital in Arkansas City, Kan.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Wednesday at the Cedar Vale United Methodist Church. Burial will be at the Cedar Vale Cemetery in Cedar Vale, Kan. Memorials have been established with the Cedar Vale United Methodist Church, the Grenola United Methodist Church and the Gideon's International. Contributions may be left with the funeral home. Funeral arrangements are being made with the Zimmerman Funeral Home of Howard, Kan.

The daughter of John William and Lura Mae (Rohrdanz) Van Wyngarden, she was born July 11, 1909, on a farm near Sully. She was a resident of Arkansas City and formerly of Grenola and Cedar Vale. She attended McKinney Grade School and graduated from Normal Training in Newton in 1928. She taught at a rural one-room school in Jasper County for seven years.

On May 28, 1935, she married Leonard Arden Steward at Des Moines. They moved to Kansas where their first residence was the Shaver Ranch on Otter Creek, northwest of Cedar Vale. In 1942, they purchased a stock farm south of Grenola, Kan., where they raised crops, cattle and sheep until they moved to Cedar Vale in 1985. She was preceded in death by her husband on June 11, 1997.

Mrs. Steward served many years in the Grenola United Methodist Church as U.M.W. Mission member and Sunday school teacher. She also served as a member of the Grenola School Board and was a 4-H Leader for many years. She continued to be active in church work at the Cedar Vale United Methodist Church until moving to Arkansas City in 2002.

Survivors include her sons, Dean of Topeka and Dale of Grenola; her daughter, Iris Magnus of Arkansas City; eight grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; two brothers, Bernard and Wilbur Van Wyngarden; and a sister, Lois Broderson.