Leta Blanche (Reynolds) Armstrong Sanders (2002)
ARMSTRONG, BARR, DEWITT, FORD, FOUCHE, GARRIS, REYNOLDS, SANDERS, SMITH, TAYLOR, WILSON
Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 3/9/2010 at 17:36:51
The Des Moines Register
Des Moines, Iowa
Saturday, December 21, 2002Leta Blanche Armstrong Sanders, 93, of Osceola died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Osceola Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. The body was cremated, and memorial services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola. Burial of the cremains will be at St. Charles Cemetery in St. Charles.
Mrs. Sanders was born in Warren County and had lived in St. Charles and Des Moines before moving to Osceola in 1982. She was a retired stencil file clerk with Look magazine in Des Moines and had worked at the Martin Bomber Plant in Omaha during World War II. She was a member of First Christian Church in Osceola and had been a longtime Sunday school teacher. She enjoyed flowers, reading and traveling.
She is survived by a brother, Fayne Reynolds of Osceola and two sisters, Eva Garris of Osceola and Faye Wilson of Indianola. She was preceded in death by her husbands, Boyd Armstrong and Calvern Sanders. Memorial contributions may be made to her church or Osceola Senior Citizens Center.
________________________The Osceola Sentinel-Tribune
Osceola, Iowa
Thursday, December 26, 2002
Page 3, Column 1LETA BLANCHE ARMSTRONG SANDERS
Leta Blanche Sanders, daughter of John William and Margaret Agusta Smith Reynolds, was born Oct. 28, 1909 in Warren County and died Dec. 18, 2002, at the Osceola Nursing and Rehab Center in Osceola. She was 93.
Leta received her education in the New Virginia Schools and graduated with the class of 1926.
She was a stencil file clerk for Look Magazine in Des Moines and also worked at the Martin Bomber Plant in Omaha, Neb. During World War II.
She lived in St. Charles and Des Moines before moving to Osceola in 1982.
She married Boyd Armstrong on Feb. 22, 1930. She married Calvern Sanders on Oct. 1. 1991.
Mrs Sanders was a former member of the CWF and Women’s Relief Corp in New Virginia. She was also a member of the First Christian Church in Osceola and taught Sunday School for many years.
Leta had a wonderful sense of humor and always had a loving smile. She loved her flower garden and enjoyed reading and traveling.
In addition to her husbands, Boyd in 1983 and Calvern in 2001, she was preceded in death by her parents; four sisters, Maxine Reynolds in infancy, Veniece Ford, Alta DeWitt and Pearl Taylor; two brothers, Elbert and Harry Reynolds; a brother-in-law, Jessie Armstrong; and a sister-in-law, Pearl Reynolds.
Mrs. Sanders is survived by a sister, Eva Garris of Osceola and Faye Wilson of Indianola; a brother, Fayne Reynolds of Osceola; two brothers-in-law, Paul Sanders and his wife, Willene Sanders, of Osceola, Harold Sanders and his wife, Leona Sanders, of Spokane, Wash. and Forest Sanders and his wife, Betty Sanders, of Green City, Mo.; two sisters-in-law, Edna Barr and Frances Fouche, both of Osceola; as well as nieces; nephews; cousins and friends.
A memorial service for Mrs. Sanders was held at Kale Funeral Home on Dec. 23, the Rev. Phil Coe of the First Christian Church officiating. Organist was Pennie Gonseth.
Internment of the cremains was in the St. Charles Cemetery.
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