Thelma Pearl (Evans) Rynearson (1985)
CLAREMONT, EVANS, HIGGINS, JUERGENSEN, POSUSTA, RYNEARSON, SLONE
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Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:34
Guthrie Center Times
Guthrie Center, Iowa
Wednesday, November 13, 1985
Page 3, Column 8Thelma Pearl Rynearson was born December 18, 1911 at Doniphan, Missouri, a daughter of David Clement and Emma Blanche Arms Evans. She died November 6, 1985 at University of Iowa Hospitals at Iowa City, following a sudden illness and cardiac arrest.
She was reared in the Winterset Iowa area where she attended school, graduating from Winterset Consolidated High School in 1930. She took additional training in Normal School at Winterset in the class of 1931, then taught country school in Madison County for one year.
On June 30, 1932, she married Ivan Alvin Rynearson at Winterset. To this union five daughters were born.
She was a homemaker and farm wife who participated in gardening, raising poultry, dairy work, and field work. She was a member of Jamaica Union Church, the Jamaica Ladies Aid, Richland Homemakers Club, Farm Bureau Women and served as 4-H leader with the Richland Rosebuds. She served as PTA president, sang in the Polk County Farm Bureau chorus, and taught Sunday school and vacation Bible school. She was an avid reader, and enjoyed community work, flowers, travel, and close ties with her family.
Preceding her in death were her parents, one infant brother, one sister Norene (Mrs. Diamond) Slone of Culver City, Calif., and one daughter, Carol Ann Rynearson, who died at the age of nine.
Surviving are her husband, Ivan of rural Yale; one sister, Miss Maxine Evans of Superior, Wisc.; four daughters, Betty (Mrs. Carl) Juergensen of Churdan, Ia., Mrs. Ilene Claremont of Nashville, Tenn., Jean (Mrs. Lyle) Higgins of Jamaica and Pearl (Mrs. James) Posusta of Toledo, Ia., and ten grandchildren.
Funeral services were at the Jamaica Union Church Saturday November 9, with burial at Berwick Cemetery at Berwick, Iowa.
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