Phyllis Virginia (Leach) Simmons Sturtz (2009)
COLLAZO, LEACH, SCHIRM, SIMMONS, STURTZ, TYER
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 8/2/2009 at 08:33:25
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 15, 2009PHYLLIS V. STURTZ, Winterset
Phyllis V. Sturtz, 85, passed away, Tuesday, July 7, 2009, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston.
Funeral services were held Saturday, July 11, at Ochiltree Funeral Service & Aftercare in Winterset. A visitation was held Friday, July 10, at Ochiltree Funeral Service, where the family received friends. Burial was at the McDonald-Chase Cemetery, Madison County. Memorials may be directed to the Juvenile Diabetes Association. Online condolences may be made to the family at ochiltree.com.
Phyllis was born Nov. 30, 1923, in Madison County, Iowa, the daughter of William Ray and Myrl (Tyer) Leach. She married Norman Sturtz on Jan. 25, 1986, at the Little Brown Church of the Vail in Nashua, Iowa.
Phyllis worked for many years at the Madison County ASC offices in Winterset where she was a secretary, retiring in 1986. During World War II, she did bookkeeping and secretarial duties for Ronald Reagan.
She was a member of the Christian Church of Truro and the Oak Run Circle, a ladies group. Phyllis loved to travel and had spent many winters in Arizona after her retirement. She also enjoyed country western dances, times spent at casinos and playing Iowa Lottery scratch tickets.
She is survived by her husband, Norman Sturtz of Winterset; two sons, Larry (Linda) Simmons of St. Charles and Bruce (Kathy) Simmons of Truro; two stepsons, Douglas (Delnita) Sturtz of Des Moines and Kevin (Barb) Sturtz of Osceola, grandchildren, Christopher (Meagan) Simmons of San Francisco, Calif.; Lee (Lindsay) Simmons of West Des Moines and Cantrelle (Jacob) Collazo of Keller, Texas; great-grandchildren, Sydney Collazo and soon to be born child to Lee and Lindsay Simmons; and six stepgrandchildren.
Phyllis was preceded in death by her parents and her sister, Doris Mackenzie Schirm.
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