Sylvia Larson (1913-2006)

LARSON, CASE, SAUNDERS, REYNOLDS, ANDERSON, BENNETT, LAHNER, QUARNSTROM, RODEN

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 2/3/2008 at 12:45:16

THE STORY CITY HERALD, Story City, Story County, Iowa, Wednesday, December 20, 2006.

Sylvia Larson, age 92, of Boone and the Eastern Star Masonic Home, died Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, at the Boone County Hospital. Funeral services were Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006, at 10:30 a.m. at the Central Christian Church in Boone where Rev. Paul Fraser officiated. Burial was in the Story City Cemetery in Story City.

Sylvia was born in Boone on Dec. 19, 1913, the daughter of Fred and Daisy (Saunders) Case. She graduated from Boone High School in 1931. Sylvia married Cecil Larson in Boone on July 21, 1940. In earlier years, she worked at the Dollie Shop in Boone. She later was employed at Bourns in Ames and also worked in the Statistical Department in Snedecor Hall at Iowa State University. She was a life long member of Central Christian Church and belonged to several card clubs. She was a past president of AARP, a member of P.E.O., and a former Lioness. Her hobbies included playing cards, needlepoint, baking, visiting and conversing with people, traveling, especially to Norway and Europe, and enjoying her children and grandchildren and their activities.

Sylvia was preceded in death by her parents; four brothers, Jack, Bill, Tom, and Carroll Case; and four sisters, Sue Case, Daisy Reynolds, Sally Anderson, and Dixie Bennett.

She is survived by her husband, Cecil of the Eastern Star Home; a son, Philip Larson of Boone; two daughters, Nancy Lahner and husband, David of Boone and Jeanne Quarnstrom and husband Howard of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania; a brother, Morris "Pete" Case of Des Moines, Washington; five grandchildren, Lisa Quarnstrom, Jonathan Quarnstrom, Holly Lahner, Nathan Lahner, and Amy Roden; and two great-grandchildren, Jacob and Molly Roden.

Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall in Boone was in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be given to the Central Christian Church or the Eastern Star Masonic Home, both in Boone.

Online condolences and a guest-book are available at the website www.schroedermemorialchapel.com.