Strawhacker, Doris

STRAWHACKER, HARTMAN, REIMAN

Posted By: Wagner (email)
Date: 4/2/2011 at 10:16:15

Source: The Wapello Republican, January 20, 2011, accompanied by a photo.
Doris A. Strawhacker

Doris Ann Strawhacker, 85, of Wapello, Iowa and formerly of Oakville, died Wednesday evening, January 12, 2011, at the Wapello Nursing & Rehab Center.

The daughter of Cecil A. and Laura Irene Gregory Hartman, she was born on December 18, 1925 in Mediapolis. She married Rex Reiman in 1946 at Oakville. He preceded her in death. She married Donald Strawhacker in 1951 in Oakville. They later divorced.

Doris attended school in Mediapolis and graduated from the Mt. Union High School. She had worked at Sylvania, the Ordnance Plant, and Midwest Biscuit all in the Burlington area and later worked for Clara Wykert in the Oakville Restaurant.

She loved to dance and enjoyed playing cards and bingo.

She was of the Methodist faith.

Her family includes two sons, Craig and Carol Strawhacker of West Burlington and Wendell Reiman of Burlington; a daughter, Brenda Strawhacker of Citrus Springs, Florida; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a brother, Bill Hartman of Washington, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, Rex and Donald; a daughter, Linda Wiley; a sister JaNan; and three brothers, Leo, Jim, and Clarence ‘Shorty’.

The funeral service for Doris Strawhacker was at 10:30 a.m. Monday, January 17, 2011 at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home in Wapello with Pastor Dan Doolin officiating. Burial followed in Edwards Cemetery, Oakville.

The family met with friends Sunday evening at the funeral home.

A memorial fund was established to benefit Great River Hospice and the Edwards Cemetery Road Fund.

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