Sprouse, Ila Mae 1934-2023

SPROUSE, KINGMA, TERPSTRA, BOND, INNIS, LAGEMAN, PAULSEN

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Date: 12/17/2023 at 16:59:51

Ila Mae Sprouse
July 9, 1934 - December 6, 2023

Ila Mae Sprouse, age 89 of Colfax, passed away on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at her home.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 1:00 pm at Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax. Burial will take place at McKeever Cemetery. The family will greet friends on Tuesday, December 12, 2023 from 5:00 - 7:00 pm at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to P.E.O. and condolences made for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com

The daughter of Carl and Alma (Kingma) Terpstra, Ila Mae was born on July 9, 1934 at home near Searsboro, Iowa. On September 5, 1953, she was united in marriage to Joe Gene Sprouse in Udel, Iowa. Ila was a farm girl, who graduated from Lynnville High School in 1951 as her class president. She attended the Des Moines Business School and over the years took various classes at Des Moines Area Community College. She was employed at Maytag from 1952 through 1954. She was a stay at home mother until 1967, when she was employed at the First National Bank in Colfax as a teller. She remained there rising up to the position of Head Cashier leaving in 1989. She then was employed at the First Newton National Bank as a teller until her retirement in January 1994. In her retirement, Ila and Joe took numerous vacations traveling the entire continental United States, even driving to Alaska for a long trip to see the state. The pursuits she enjoyed both prior to retirement and after were camping, fishing, and mushroom hunting.

In her youth she was accomplished at the playing the piano. When retired she decided to take up quilting as her hobby, and won numerous awards for some of her quilts that she entered in various contests. She produced a baby quilt that won Best of Show at the Iowa State Fair and had a quilt hang in the International Quilt show in Paducah, Ky in 2015. The same quilt that hung in Paducah was showcased in the American Quilt Society calendar for 2015. She met a lady from Australia who was a quilter and developed a friendship with her (Jude Bond). They formed a collaboration between 3 US quilters and 3 Australian quilters and sent quilt blocks to each other and each of the 6 quilters designed and made a quilt from the blocks they received. The quilt Ila Mae designed and made was entered in the Iowa State Fair, won a blue ribbon and was awarded a special prize for the best use of color in 2005.

Those left to honor her memory include her children; Mark Sprouse, Suzanne Sprouse and James Downey (Laurie) Sprouse; three grandchildren, Dirk Sprouse, Gabrielle (Ben) Innis and Sarah (Matt) Lageman; six great grandchildren, Henry, Spencer, Charlie, Parker, Samuel and Harper; a sister, Virginia (Jack) Paulsen; a brother, Wilbur Terpstra and nieces and nephews. Preceding her in death were her parents, husband in 2008; a sister-in-law Fontella Terpstra, a daughter-in-law, Susan and a nephew, Sheldon.

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Events

Visitation
Tuesday, December 12, 2023
5:00PM - 7:00PM
Coburn Funeral Homes - Colfax
24 W. Howard Street
Colfax, IA 50054
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Funeral Service
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
1:00PM
Coburn Funeral Homes - Colfax
24 W. Howard Street
Colfax, IA 50054
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Final Resting Place
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Colfax, IA 50054 ~ The Coburn Funeral Home, Colfax, Iowa 06 Dec 2023.