Irene LaVonne (Harper) Followwill (2008)
ADAMS, BURRELL, CRAWFORD, FOLLOWWILL, GRAEVE, HARPER, HILL, LAPCHESKE, VAN WINKLE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 11/14/2008 at 14:04:54
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 12, 2008IRENE FOLLOWWILL, Adel
Irene LaVonne Followwill, 88, died Nov. 7, 2008, at the Adel home of her daughter. She had been under hospice care and previously lived in Madison County near St. Charles.
A memorial service was held Tuesday, Nov. 11, at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset. Memorials may be directed to the American Kidney Foundation.
Irene Followwill was born July 5, 1920, to Clyde and Elvia (Burrell) Harper of rural Perry and was a 1937 graduate of Perry High School. Her marriage to Charles Jacob Followwill took place June 22, 1939, in Lancaster, Mo. Irene, a homemaker, also provided child care to many friends and neighbors in and around St. Charles. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Martensdale.
She was preceded in death by her husband; one son, Carl Joseph Followwill; a grandson, Alan Lance Followwill; a granddaughter, Charlotte Crawford; and three brothers, Fred, Howard and Perry Robert Harper.
She is survived by five daughters — Aretta Mae Graeve of Adel, Oda LaVonne Van Winkle of Kerville, Texas, Norma Charlene Adams of LaGrange, Texas, Glenda Rose Crawford of Temple, Texas, and Mary Belle Hill of Norwalk; one son, Charles David Followwill of Emporia, Kan., a sister, Arlene E. Lapcheske of Des Moines; a brother, Charles Harper of Patterson; and 14 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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