Anna May (Fountain) Geyer

GEYER, FOUNTAIN, VAN SYOC, KEMP, GLOSSER, WILES, ODONNELL, KNEBEL, MILLER, PARSONS, BLAKE, ISAACS

Posted By: Misty Christner (email)
Date: 4/16/2018 at 12:20:40

Source: Peterseim Funeral Home

A celebration of life for Anna May (Fountain) Geyer will be held Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 10AM at the Sharon Center United Methodist Church with Pastor Erling Shultz officiating. Burial will follow at the Sharon Center Cemetery. Visitation will be held Friday, at the Peterseim Home in Kalona. A memorial fund has been established for the Sharon Center United Methodist Church and the Muscular Distrophy Association.
Anna May Fountain was born January 6, 1929 in Johnson County, Iowa the daughter of Vernon L. and Myrna E. (Van Syoc) Fountain. She attended Willow Grove #2 rural school, Sharon High School, University High School and graduated from Kalona High School. She was united in marriage to Richard Geyer on February 14, 1948 at the Sharon Center EUB Church. Anna May worked as a switchboard operator at Sharon Telephone, as a housekeeper at the University of Iowa for 26 years, and was a temp worker at ACT. She was a member of the Sharon Center United Methodist Women. She enjoyed square dancing, camping, gardening, quilting, crocheting and knitting. Sharing her handiwork was important to Anna May, and she knitted stocking caps for babies at the U of I Children's Hospital and when she and Dick spent their winters in Texas, she made comforters for a mission project in Mexico.
Survivors include three daughters: Linda (Noah) Kemp, Joyce (Ron) Wiles, and Christine Glosser all of Kalona, Iowa, seven grandchildren: Amanda Miller, Andrew Wiles, Sara O'Donnell, Rachel Knebel, Katie Miller, Brandi Parsons, Brittany Blake, 14 great-grandchildren, two great great-grandsons, three step great-grandchildren, one step great great-granddaughter, a sister-in-law, Ruth Fountain of Kalona, a brother-in-law, Raymond (Mary) Greyer of Wellman, sister-in-law, Donna (John) Isaacs of Iowa City, and many nieces and nephews.
Preceding Anna May in death were her parents, her husband Dick, sister Vera Hepker, brother Omer Fountain and granddaughter Angela Lynne Kemp.
In Lieu of flowers a memorial fund has been established for the Sharon Center United Methodist Church and the Muscular Distrophy Association. Anna May Geyer died Monday, July 11, 2016 at Pleasantview Home in Kalona.