Verna Victoria Halverson (1920-2006)

HALVERSON, YOUNG, ANDERSON, PERSONS, ALLEMAN, BUCKLEY

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 8/26/2006 at 09:08:48

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Friday, August 25, 2006.

Verna Victoria Halverson, 86, of Madrid, died Thursday, Aug. 24, at the Madrid Nursing Home. Services will be at 1 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Slater, with the Rev. Heidi Williams officiating.

Verna Victoria Halverson was born March 25, 1920, in Ogden, the daughter of Gunnar and Edna (Anderson) Young. She married Everett R. Halverson on Dec. 23, 1945, in Des Moines. They farmed in the Kelley, Huxley and Slater area. She worked at Blue Cross-Blue Shield and for 23 years as a payroll clerk at John Deere. Following her retirement in 1982, she worked at the Slater Public Library. She was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

She is survived by her sons Gary, Rodney (Janice) and Dana (Dorene), all of Slater; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one sister, Marily (Jerry) Persons, of Anaheim, Calif.; two brothers, Gunnar (Helen) and Warren (Marcella) Young, both of Madrid; one sister-in-law, Irene Alleman, of Ankeny; and brothers-in-law, Murl (Esther) Halverson, of Nevada, and Howard Buckley, of California.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Ruth Grimm and Virginia David; and her husband.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 27, at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Slater.

Memorials may be directed to Bethlehem Lutheran Church and Slater Municipal Cemetery Lighting Fund.

The Soderstrum-Riis Funeral Home in Slater, Iowa, is in charge of arrangements.

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