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Sarah McQuiety Eaton 1935-2003

SYMONS, MCQUIETY, EATON

Posted By: Lori Clark
Date: 9/2/2003 at 08:43:26

Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service
Iowa City – 319-338-1132

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Sarah McQuiety Eaton age 67 of 2509 Friendship Street, Iowa City died Sunday, August 31, 2003 at her home of cancer. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at the First Baptist Church in Iowa City. The Sunday Parking Ordinance will be in effect for Clinton, Fairchild and Dubuque Streets. Burial will be at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday at the Evergreen Cemetery in Shullsburg, Wisconsin. For those traveling to Wisconsin for burial please allow approximately two hours and fifteen minuets for travel time. Visitation will be on Tuesday from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City. At 7:00 p.m. an Order of the Eastern Star White Shrine of Jerusalem Service will be held. At Sarah’s request, please no flowers or plants. Memorials donations may be given in her memory to the First Baptist Church of Iowa City, Iowa City Hospice or The White Shrine. Online condolences may be sent to her family through our website @www.gayandciha.com.
Sarah P. Eaton was born in Shullsburg, Wisconsin to Harriett (Symons) McQuiety and John I McQuiety in 1935. She graduated from Shullsburg High School in 1953 and from Finley School of Nursing in Dubuque, Iowa in 1956. She had post grad in OB at Women’s Hospital in Detroit Michigan. She was employed as an RN in Detroit, Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Mercy and St. Luke’s in Cedar Rapids. Sarah was wonderful nurse and treated her patients kindly and compositionality. She retired from University of Iowa Hospital and Clinic in Iowa City after 30 years in 1998. She married Paul R. Eaton February 1961 and dissolved the legal relationship October 1990.
She belonged to and was very active at First Baptist Church of Iowa City, SUNA (Urology Nurses Association) and ONS (Oncology Nurses Society), White Shrine of Jerusalem of Iowa City and belonged to Eastern Star, Shullsburg, Wisconsin. Since retirement she has been a volunteer with Hospice and at the Patients library at U of I Hospital & Clinics. She had also been involved with Partners With Reading through RSVP. Sarah had many great friends and really appreciated every one of them. Her family also appreciates the many offers of help, food and support as well, she was beloved by all.
Her family includes one son: Dave Eaton of Iowa City, two daughters: Sally Eaton of Alvarado, Texas and Pam Eaton Neubauer of McKinney, Texas. Pam’s husband is Bill, and they gave Sarah four grandchildren, William, Michael, Phillip and her namesake, Sarah, two sisters, Ann Smythe of Benton, WI, Mary McQuiety of Shullsburg, WI and one brother, John (Jack) A McQuiety of Darlington, WI.
She was preceded in death by Paul Eaton and her parents, John and Harriett McQuiety. The Gay and Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service are caring for Sarah’s services and her family.


 

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