MINEART, Kathryn J. 'Katie' 1922 - 2012

MINEART, LEGAN, WEHR, FRITZ, PACHA, SEGLIE, TURNIPSEED, VAN SCOY

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/12/2012 at 14:09:45

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, July 9, 2012
Page 8

Kathryn 'Katie' MINEART

Kathryn J. "Katie" MINEART, 90, of Brighton, died Friday July 6, 2012, at Halcyon House in Washington, Iowa.

Funeral Mass is 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain with the Rev. Charles J. Fladung officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery.

Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with prayers for a Christian wake and a Rosary beginning at 7 p.m.

Memorials to St. Joseph Cemetery may be left at the church or mailed to the family at 1022 Spruce Ave., Brighton 52540.

Gould Funeral Home of Brighton is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. MINEART was born Feb. 22, 1922, in Portsmouth, the daughter of Walter William and Myrtle LEGAN WEHR. Upon her mother's death three weeks later, she was brought by train across Iowa in a snowstorm to be raised by her father's sister and brother-in-law, Rose and Otto FRITZ in Brighton. She married Leroy MINEART in 1941. He died Oct. 27, 2010.

She attended school at Burr Oak and Brighton schools, graduating from Brighton High School in 1939. She and her husband farmed south of Brighton.

She was a homemaker and sold Avon products for more than 25 years.

Mrs. MINEART was a 4-H leader and a county council member, a member of Sts. Joseph and Cabrini Catholic Church in East Pleasant Plain, a member of the Altar and Rosary Society and Catholic Daughters of America.

She loved her family and created special times at Christmas, birthdays, weddings, picnics and family gatherings. She was well known for her cooking, especially her triangle Brown Bobby doughnuts.

She enjoyed gardening, china painting and playing cards.

She loved traveling with her husband and family to many places in the United States including Hawaii. She and Leroy wintered in Arizona and attended the Iowa State Fair for years.

Survivors include three daughters, Rosemary PACHA and her husband Gerald of Brighton, Susan SEGLIE and her husband Ron of Pittsburg, Kan., and Chrsitine TURNIPSEED and her husband Scott of Moline, Ill.; three sons, Edward MINEART and his wife Amy of Muscatine, Paul MINEART and his wife Carol of Peyson, Ariz, and Mike MINEART and his wife Connie of Walford; 18 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; one brother, Walt WEHR of Omaha, Neb., and one sister Marjorie VAN SCOY of Irving, Texas.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her biological parents, her adoptive parents, her stepmother, an infant son and her brother, Herman WEHR.

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