Dorothy Louise (Boyd) Holtmyer (2009)

HOLTMYER, BOYD, CURTIS, BUSH, CONKEL, NEELY, SECREST

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 12/10/2009 at 18:24:14

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
December 9, 2009

DOROTHY HOLTMYER, Winterset

Dorothy Holtmyer, 86, of Winterset died Dec. 4, 2009, at Winterset Care Center North.

Memorial graveside services will be held at a later date. Memorials may be directed to her family. Arrangements were handled by McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset.

Dorothy Holtmyer was born Aug. 6, 1923, in Madison County to Raymond and Ruth (Curtis) Boyd. Her marriage to Charles Elmer Holtmyer took place Sept. 29, 1946, in Des Moines. Dorothy, a homemaker, had been a lifetime resident of Winterset. She also was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by one son, Gary Holtmyer, and two sisters, Marilyn Bush and an infant sister.

She is survived by her husband, Charles, of Winterset; two daughters, Connie Conkel of Bartlett, Tenn., and Kim Neely of Indianola; one son, Keith Holtmyer of Des Moines; a sister, Velma Secrest of Winterset; and eight grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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Des Moines Register, Des Moines, Iowa
December 15, 2009

DOROTHY HOLTMYER, Winterset

Dorothy (Mrs. Chuck) Holtmyer, 86, of Winterset, passed on to her savior, Friday, December 4, 2009 at Winterset Care Center North. A memorial service will be held 2 p.m., Wednesday, at McCalley- Collins Funeral Home. Her cremains will be interred in the Winterset Cemetery.

Dorothy was born to Raymond and Ruth (Curtis) Boyd and was married to Charles E. Holtmyer. She had been a lifetime resident of Winterset and was a homemaker.

Dorothy is survived by her husband, Charles Holtmyer of Winterset; daughters, Connie Conkel of Bartlett, TN and Kim Neely of Indianola; son, Keith Holtmyer of Des Moines; sister, Velma Secrest of Winterset; eight grandchildren; and ten great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Raymond and Ruth (Curtis) Boyd; son, Gary Holtmyer; sister, Marilyn Bush; and an infant sister.

Memorials may be directed to her family.