Helen (Swan) Grandfield (2006)
AINSLIE, EWING, GRANDFIELD, KNOCH, REED, SWAN
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 7/14/2006 at 08:35:45
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 12, 2006HELEN GRANDFIELD Dayton, Iowa
Helen Grandfield, 85, of Dayton, Iowa, and formerly of Winterset, died Friday, July 7, 2006, at the Grandview Care Center in Dayton.
Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. today (Wednesday, July 12) at the United Methodist Church in Lorimor, Iowa. Burial will be at the Lorimor Cemetery at a later date. Memorial contributions may be directed to the United Methodist Church of Lorimor.
Helen was born Sept. 3, 1920, in rural Saylorville, Iowa, the daughter of John Carl and Vivian Hazel (Reed) Swan. They moved to Union County near Lorimor in 1928, where she attended local schools and graduated in the Lorimor High School class of 1940.
Her marriage to John Mitchell Grandfield took place on June 6, 1941, in Grant City, Mo., and to this union six children were born. Helen and John lived and farmed in the Lorimor area for over 20 years. In 1966, they moved the family to the Dayton area where they lived for eight years before moving to Winterset, which is where they called home for 30 years.
Helen enjoyed working for the Madison County Meals for the Elderly in Winterset as the site manager for 20 years after she had devoted her time to being a mother and a homemaker. Helen was a member of the United Methodist Church of Lorimor. She had recently belonged to the United Methodist Women of Dayton. She also enjoyed gardening, cooking and especially spending time with her grandchildren.
Helen is survived by four sons, John C. (Mary) Grandfield of Antioch, Ill., James C. (Sylvia) Grandfield of Concord, N.H., Jack C. Grandfield of Grand Junction, Iowa, and Daniel F. (Mary Jo) Grandfield of Rockwell City, Iowa; one daughter, Sheryl (Jim) Ainslie of Dayton; a sister, Lucille Ewing of Palm Coast, Fla.; a brother-in-law, Scott Knoch of Atchison, Kan.; 11 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Rodney M. Grandfield; and two sisters, Pat Knoch and infant Amelia Swan.
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