Catherine Janice (Coe) Austin (2011)

AUSTIN, COE, VAUGHAN, LARIMER, GRAY, ROBERTS, ECKELS, ELSON, BRUSTO, SIDDENS, HOFMEISTER, HILL, DODD, HARPER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/18/2011 at 09:54:28

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
March 16, 2011

JANICE AUSTIN, Afton

Janice Austin, 91, of Afton died Friday, March 11, 2011, at the Afton Care Center.

Services were held Tuesday, March 15, at Powers Funeral Home in Afton, with Pastor Jim Morris officiating. Burial was in the Greenlawn Cemetery in Afton. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Afton Community Center project.

Catherine Janice (Coe) Austin, daughter of Lewis Lester Coe and Katherine Lydia Byrd (Vaughan) Coe was born Feb. 8, 1920, in Waukee. When Janice was nine months old, her family moved to Parkersburg, WV, her mother’s hometown; they moved back to Iowa when she was nine years old. They first settled in Earlham and then moved to rural Madison County, near Peru. Janice graduated from Winterset High School in 1938. She was united in marriage to Forrest Marion Austin on Oct. 23, 1938, in the United Methodist Church Parsonage in Winterset. Janice was a homemaker, a mother and kept the books for Forrest at the salvage yard until 1965. She later worked with Forrest in his construction business. Janice and Forrest farmed until 1987, when they moved back to town in Afton and retired.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Forrest; a daughter, Linda Larimer; three sons-in-law, Chuck Gray, Dick Roberts and Stephen Eckels; granddaughter, Kathryn Laneé Austin; three brothers, Charles Coe and infants John Roberts Coe and David Irvin Coe; and two sisters, Corinne Elson and Martha Brusto.

She is survived by three sons, Marion Austin, Gary Austin and Alan Austin, all of Afton; five daughters, Kathryn Siddens of Afton, Beth Gray of Winterset, Virginia Roberts of Ozark, Mo., Nancy Hofmeister of Creston and Mary Hill of Afton; a son-in-law, Dennis Larimer of Apple Valley, Minn.; 22 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandsons; a brother, Carroll F. Coe of Fairbanks, Ala.; a sister-in-law, Frieda Dodd of State Center; and a brother-in-law, Dana Harper of Lorimor.

Online condolences can directed to the family at www.powersfh.com.