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Velma (Leander) Weeks (2011)

WEEKS, LEANDER, ANDERSON, VORRATH, KAISER, LOWRY, WALLACE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 11/23/2011 at 15:06:06

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

VELMA WEEKS, Winterset

Velma Weeks, 89, of Winterset died Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, at Care Center South in Winterset.

Funeral services were held at 10:30 a.m. Today (Wednesday, Nov. 23) at McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset with Rev. Dr. John Shaull officiating.

Burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.

Velma was born on March 29, 1922, in Adair County, Iowa, to George and Clara (Anderson) Leander. She was married on Feb. 28, 1942, in Plattsburg, Mo., to Gerald Weeks. Velma had been a resident of Madison County since her marriage and had been a teacher, librarian and spent most of life being a farm wife. She had been a member of the Friendly Circle Club of Monroe Township.

Velma is survived by her son Steve (Patty) Weeks of Winterset; one brother, Denny Leander of Georgia; one sister, Betty Vorrath of Creston; two grandchildren, Angie Kaiser and Jessie Lowry; and two great-, grandchildren, Cannon Kaiser and Colton Kaiser.

She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Clara (Anderson) Leander; husband, Gerald Weeks; brother, Raymond Leander; and sister, Helen Macumber Wallace.

Memorials given to her family will be directed to Middle River Hospice.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by McCalley-Collins Funeral Home in Winterset.

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