Elizabeth Durst 1901-2004

DURST, ANTHONY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/30/2009 at 19:03:36

Mapleton Press
19 Feb 2004

Elizabeth Durst, age 102 of Mapleton, died Tuesday, February 10, 2004 at Lake View, Iowa.
Services were held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 14 at Danbury United Methodist Church in Danbury with Pastor Kathy Olson officiating. Burial was in Liston Township Cemetery, Danbury. Organist and violinist was Thayla and Elizabeth Hanson. They played "Abide With Me". Charles Pine was the organist for Prelude "Amazing Grace" and for the congregational singing "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow" and Postlude "I Know That My Redeemer Lives".

Elizabeth Anthony Durst was born December 25, 1901 to Albert and Sarah Anthony in Mapleton, Iowa. She passed away at Black Hawk Life Care Center in Lake View on Tuesday morning, February 10, 2004.

Elizabeth was educated in the Mapleton school system from which she graduated in 1920. She was honored this last summer in the Mapleton Sesquicentennial parade as the oldest living graduate of Mapleton High School.

After a brief career in the Simmons Department Store in Mapleton, Elizabeth was married to D. Manley Durst of Danbury. To this union two children were born: Dr. Mark Durst of Lake View, Iowa and Sarah Durst Kjoss of Hickory Corners, Michigan and Naples, Florida.

Elizabeth was a member of the Danbury United Methodist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary. During their many years in Danbury, Elizabeth and Manley were deeply involved in community affairs and their affiliated organizations.

After Manley's death in 1981, Elizabeth lived in Lake View and the Oak Terrace Estates in Sac City, but returned to the town of her birth in 1998 until health made it necessary for her residency at Black Hawk Life Care Center in Lake View.

Elizabeth's legacy will be the results of her artistic skills. Her talents and interests covered a broad range of creativity; sewing, knitting, crocheting, tatting, painting, ceramics and doll making. She shared these results with family and friends.

Elizabeth is survived by a devoted family and many friends. Family members are Dr. Mark and Margaret Durst of Lake View, Richard and Sarah Durst Kjoss of Michigan and Florida. Grandchildren and spouses are Mark and Thalya Durst Hanson of Des Moines, Dr. Douglas and Rachel Durst Pick of Clive, Jack and Susan Kjoss McDaniel of Hickory Corners, Michigan, and David and Linda Kjoss Scott of Lambertvillle, Michigan, and a sister-in-law, Dorothy Durst Warren of Long Beach, California. The ten great-grandchildren are Elizabeth and David Hanson, Erin and Chad McDaniel, Anne, Andrew, and Matthew Pick and McKenzie, Katherine and Robert Scott. Baby Owen McDaniel is a great-great-grandson. A niece, Evelyn McClure of Harbor Springs, Michigan, is also an intimate part of the family as well as Stanley Smith, a nephew, who resides in Hemel, California. Elizabeth was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Manley, three sisters and two brothers, and a grandson, Mark Kjoss.

Pallbearers were Mark Hanson, Dr. Douglas Pick, David Colbert, David Hummel, Keith Robinson and Ron Cornine.

Arrangements were made under the direction of the Armstrong Funeral Home of Mapleton-Danbury.