Audrey Jeanette Llewellyn

LLEWELLYN, STRINGER, BEGHTEL, DEUEL, MOYER, CHRISTIANSON

Posted By: Ida Morse (email)
Date: 1/13/2006 at 15:44:36

Funeral Document January 12, 2006
St. Charles, Iowa

Audrey Jeanette Llewellyn, daugher of Beatrice Moyer Stringer Christianson and Harold Stringer, was born June 28, 1931 in Guthrie County, Iowa and passed away on January 4, 2006 at Kavanagh House in West Des MOines, Iowa at the age of 74.

Audrey attended Guthrie Center High School where she met Grant Llewellyn. They were married on September 1, 1949 at the Disciples of Christ Church in Guthrie Center. Their marriage was blessed with 3 children, Linda Eileen, Debra Jean, and Ronald Eugene. They spent their first few years of marriage in the Guthrie County area moving to St. Charles in October 1954 when they joined the St. Charles Disciples of Christ church. While their family was still young, Audrey served as Sunday School teacher and was active in CWF. Her gardens (both vegetable and flowers) were bountiful, and she was know for having a green thumb. As well as gardening, she was known to be a phenomental cook, baker, and seamstress. In the mid 1960's Audrey took a class to learn how to decorate cakes. Her wedding cakes decorated many reception tables as well as fancy/decorated cakes for her family's birthdays and graduations. Her homemade noodles were the first items sold at the local 4-H bake sales. Audrey also was and excellent seamstress, making the girls' school clothes while they were young and later sewing quilts to share. Each of the children and grandchildren has one of her quilts. One quilt also found a home in Santiago, Chili with their foreign exchange student from 1976-77, Francis Durney.

Audrey worked many part-time jobs but managed to stay in control of raising a family. From working for Brooks Grocery Store to running the Covered Bridge Cafe, to selling Avon. Audrey was always busy. The Covered Bridge Cafe was a family affair, with Audrey as the cheif cook and bookkeeper and Grant as the chief dishwasher. Deb worked for her mother for a time until Linda took over baking pies and helping her mother run the business. Audrey even included her grandchilddren with the everyday chores. As her granchildren came along, she was a devoted grandmother - a ready babysitter while they were little, and attending sporting events from grade school to High School and College wrestling. Being short of stature, the goal for each of them was to be taller than Grandma.

For 11 years Audrey and Grant spent their winters in Apache Junction, Az, where they made many, many friends; but they were always anxious to return home to see how much the grandchildren had grown. Even after being diagnosed with cancer, Audrey continued with her Avon until just this past fall.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother, Richard and sister, Patricia.

Left to cherish her memory is her husband, Grant of St. Charles, their children, Linda (Don) Beghtel of St. Charles, Deb (Randy) Deuel of Des Moines, and Ron (Deb Mutchler) of Indianola; foreign exchange son, Francis Durney of Santiago, Chili; brother, Dudley Stringer (Jolene) of Tempe, Az; 9 grandchildren; 6 great grandchildren; as well as brothers/sistrs-in-law; a host of nieces, nephews and many, many friends.