Alice Lou (Myers) Greenman (2020)

ARMSTRONG, BEEDE, BROWNE, FRISBY, GREENMAN, HATFIELD, MYERS, REYNOLDS, WHARFF

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 11/8/2023 at 18:04:33

Kale Funeral Home
Osceola, Iowa
July 11, 1923 – August 15, 2020

Alice Lou Greenman, daughter of Wayne Jennings Myers and Theo Raye (Frisby) Myers Browne was born July 11, 1923 in Kellerton, Iowa.

Lou and her family moved to Osceola during her sophomore year of high school. She graduated from Osceola High School with the class of 1940 and attended one year at Osceola Junior College.

Lou was united in marriage to Owen Russell Beede on May 10, 1942 in Yuma, Arizona. This union was blessed with a son David. Russell was killed in WW II at Iwo Jima and Lou was left to raise her infant son. She met Wilbur L. Greenman and they were married on October 23, 1945 in Kansas City, Kansas. Wilbur raised David as his own son and David thought of him as "Dad". They returned to the Osceola and Kellerton areas, where they both went to work in Des Moines and continued farming. In 1953, they moved to St. Charles and bought a house and retired from farming. Wilbur passed away on April 27, 1979. Lou stayed in same house in St. Charles. She worked for Farm Bureau for 29 1/2 years.

Lou was a very active member of the St. Charles Parish Church. She was a member of St. Charles Parish Women's Group; Order of the Eastern Star; Rolling Wheels Camping Club. She served on the St. Charles City Council for 9 1/2 years. She enjoys craft work of all kinds and currently enjoyed crocheting. Lou had volunteered at the Iowa State Fair for many years and several of those years at the Pioneer Hall, she has camped at the fair time since 1957. She enjoys her weekly lunch outings with her friends and the group attends several activities together.

Those relatives who preceded Lou in death were her parents, Wayne Jennings Myers and Theo Raye Browne; step-father, Donald Browne; first husband, Owen Russell Beede; second husband, Wilbur L. Greenman; son, David Noel Beede; sisters, Jean Reynolds, Donna Hatfield and Carole "Dena" Armstrong.

Lou leaves to cherish her memory; grandson, Michael Beede; sister, Sally Wharff of Norwalk, IA; nieces, nephews other relatives and many friends.

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