May C. Scheer 1911 - 2000
SCHEER, KEHR, WASMUND
Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/11/2014 at 23:03:10
9 March 2000
May Scheer, former weather observer dies
May C. Scheer, age 88, of Mapleton, died Thursday, March 2, 2000 at Mapleton, Iowa.
Services were held 10:30 a.m. Monday, March 6, at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton with Pastor Scott Fiege officiating. Burial was in Mount Hope Cemetery, Mapleton. Karen Krusen was the organist for the service and the congregation sang, "Abide With Me", "How Great Thou Art" and "I'm But A Stranger Here". A prayer service was held at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.
May C. Scheer was born September 1, 1911, at Wichita, Kansas, the daughter of E.H. and Katie (Kehr) Wasmund. She was baptized into the Lutheran faith as an infant at Wichita where she grew up and was educated. In 1925 the family moved to Mapleton, Iowa, where on May 9, 1929, she was confirmed at St. Matthew Lutheran Church.
On March 23, 1938, May was united in marriage to Edwin William Scheer near Mapleton. The couple farmed north of Mapleton until retirement in 1983 when they moved into town. Edwin died May 14, 1998.
She was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton as well as the L.C.W. She donated her time, quilting skills and goods to the L.W.M.L. for the Lutheran World Relief Quilting projects. She loved her garden, the farm animals and country living but her greatest devotion was to her family.
For 50 years May gave her time on a daily basis to serve as a Volunteer Official Weather Observer for the National Weather Service. Along with multiple other honors, she received the Thomas Jefferson Award on December 7, 1993 in recognition of her exceptionally neat, accurate, and complete weather records reported to the National Weather Service. This high honor is only presented to five recipients in the nation each year.
Those survivors left to cherish May's memory include two sons, Wayne of Mapleton and his children, Mark, Darin and Carla, and Daryl and his wife, Connie of Mapleton and their children, Amy and Bryan; one daughter, Jean and her husband, Howard Watson of Liberty, Missouri and their children, Kerrie and her husband, Mike Pemberton, Lisa (Watson) Endsley and Lori Watson; five great-grandchildren, Madison Endsley, Mitchel and Devin Pemberton and Derone and Shianne Watson; one brother and his wife, LeRoy and Anna Wasmund of Anthon, Iowa, and one sister, Dorothy Pope of Mapleton, Iowa, along with many other relatives, neighbors and good friends.
Along with her husband, May was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Carl and Conrad.
Pallbearers were Bryan Scheer, Darin Scheer, Dan Todd, Duane Wasmund, Marvin Drenkhahn and Howard Kruse.
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