KAMMERER, M. Louise

KAMMERER, HEATER, HARPER

Posted By: Nancy (email)
Date: 9/26/2003 at 21:39:47

September 25, 2003 The Morning Sun News-Herald and The Wapello Republican. I am not related and have no further information.

M. Louise Kammerer

M. Louise Kammerer, 82, of Wapello, Iowa, died Thursday, September 18, 2003 at the Wapello Nursing & Rehab Center in Wapello. The daughter of Charles and Lillian Harper Heater, she was born September 10, 1921, in Mount Pleasant. She married Lewis A. “Luke” Kammerer on February 27, 1937, in Muscatine.

She was a homemaker and had worked at the Ordnance Plant in Middletown and for a short time at the Wapello Nursing Home. For many years, she and her husband have been the custodians for the first Presbyterian Church in Wapello.

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Geneva Guild of the Presbyterian Women, the Merry Makers Club, the Louisa County Farm Bureau Ladies, and the Geode-A-Bagos Camping Club. She had been a 4-H leader for many years and enjoyed reading, sewing, and camping.

Survivors include her husband “Luke”; two sons, Gerald and Dianna Kammerer of Morning Sun, and Bruce Kammerer of Libertyville; three daughters, Janet and John Hilde of Casper, Wyoming; Karen and Joiner Yakle of Wapello and Sharon and Ron Whitehorn of Wapello; 15 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; a sister, Barbara Amick of Appomattox, Virginia; six step-brothers, and one step-sister.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her step-mother Edna; a brother, Charles Jr.; and two sisters, Virginia Hunt and Betty Crocker.

The funeral service was held at 11 a.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church in Wapello, with the Rev. Mary N. Pugh officiating. John Hilde was the vocalist singing “In The Garden.” The congregation sang “Amazing Grace” and “There is a Place of Quiet Rest.” Betty McChesney was the organist.

Pallbearers were the grandsons, John Hilde, Erik Hilde, Darren Hilde, Mark Kammerer, Adam Kammerer, Chris Kammerer, Jim Kammerer, Matt Kammerer, Shane Kammerer, Thomas Yakle, Kenneth Yakle, Michael Whitehorn and Nathan Whitehorn.

Burial followed at the Wapello Cemetery.

A memorial fund was established for the benefit of the First Presbyterian Church in Wapello.

Open visitation was Sunday at the Dudgeon-McCulley Funeral Home in Wap