Cluresa A. "Sis" Eggers

EGGERS, SLADE, HAMAN, MORGAN, DETERT, NEUZIL, REYNOLDS

Posted By: Lisa M. Ciha (email)
Date: 1/10/2013 at 11:04:46

Iowa City Press Citizen
Cedar Rapids Gazette

Cluresa A. “Sis” Eggers, 86, of rural Tiffin died Tuesday, January 8, 2013, at Mercy Hospital under the compassionate care of the Hospice.

Funeral services will be held at 2pm Saturday, January 12, 2013, at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service in Iowa City, burial will follow at the Oak Hill Cemetery in Tiffin. Visitation will be from 12 noon until services on Saturday at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established. Online condolences may be sent for her family through the web @ www.gayandciha.com.

Cluresa A. Haman was born March 20, 1926, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, the daughter of Clarence and Leota (Slade) Haman. She attended schools in Tiffin graduating from high school there in 1944. She was united in marriage to Lloyd D. “Blondie” Eggers on August 15, 1946 in Iowa City. The couple moved to Tiffin in 1947 and she has never left the area since. Over the years when she wasn’t caring for her family she worked at a number of places including Beverly Manor Care Center, Hardees in Coralville, and retired two years ago from HyVee in Coralville where she took great pride as the Salad Bar Manager! Her family and friends were her world, she loved to visit, and was known to say she never met a stranger. She was very proud of the fact that she was one of the “old” residents of Tiffin.

Her family includes her children, Carole Eggers of Clear Lake, Mn; Skeet Morgan (Tom) of Tiffin; Bob Eggers (Connie Kieffer) of Oxford, Bill Eggers (Sharon) of Tiffin, Betty Detert (Butch) of Tiffin, Patty Neuzil (Jimmy II) of Oxford, Jim Eggers of Tiffin, Jack Eggers (Sheri Chapman) of Tiffin, and Kathy Reynolds (Dan) of Kellerton, IA; 24 grandchildren, and 31 great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Blondie; daughter, Mary Lou Eggers, 1 great-granddaughter, and sister, Thora Lehman.