Geraldine Atilano

ATILANO, BARTLEY, SANDERS

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 4/6/2009 at 07:10:00

Source Muscatine Iowa Journal June 28, 2006
GRANDVIEW, Iowa
Geraldine 'Gerry' Atilano, 71, formerly of West Liberty, died Tuesday, June 27, 2006, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, after an extended illness.

Service will be at the St. Joseph Catholic Church, West Liberty. The Rev. Dennis Martin will officiate. Burial will be at Mount Calvary Cemetery, West Liberty.

Visitation will be at Henderson-Barker Funeral Home, West Liberty.

She was born Aug. 4, 1934, in Harrisburg, Pa., the daughter of Charles and Bessie Bartley Sanders. She married Flavio Atilano on Jan. 19, 1971, in West Liberty. He preceded her in death in 1999.

She had been employed by Thomas and Betts, Iowa City, for several years and most recently worked at Twin Oaks Restaurant, Muscatine, retiring in 1991.

She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church. She liked to spend time with her daughter, Janet, granddaughter, Gerry and all her family and friends. She will be dearly missed by all including her dog, Bruno. She enjoyed sitting in her chair working her puzzle book or watching Law and Order.

Survivors include five daughters, Janet Zaehringer of Grandview, Tammy Ramirez and husband John and Connie Garcia, all of Muscatine, Shirley Churchill of Holland, Mich. and Betty Fankhauser and husband Dick of Des Moines; three sons, Robert Sanders of Weston, W. Va., Mark Jaynes of Des Moines and Larry Sanders of East Moline, Ill.; a sister, Edna Crutchman of Uniontown, Pa.; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; four brothers; and two sisters.