Avonelle Charlotte Hefflefinger (1926-2008)
HEFFLEFINGER, THOMPSON, BRALAND, HEIL, JACOBSON, WARD, STEWART, SHEPARD, OLSON, ANDERSON, ERP
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 9/28/2008 at 19:26:56
THE AMES TRIBUME, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Sunday, September 28, 2008.
Avonelle Charlotte Hefflefinger, 81, of West Des Moines, died Sept. 26, 2008, at Susan Ramsey House in Des Moines. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008, at First Church of the Open Bible 2200 Beaver at Hickman in Des Moines. Burial will be at 1:15 p.m. at Story Memorial Gardens in Ames. Visitation will be Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Adams Funeral Home in Ames and an hour before the service at the church.
Avonelle was born Nov. 27, 1926, in Story City to Amos and Selma (Braland) Thompson. She married Charles K. Hefflefinger on May 23, 1981. He died in 2000.
She worked as an administrative assistant at Iowa State University in the Department of Statistics.
She was a member of First Church of the Open Bible in Des Moines and had formerly been a member of Campus Baptist Church in Ames. She graduated from Randall High School and had served on the Board of Directors at the ISU Credit Union. She was a president of the Certified Professional Secretary Association and was a member of Gideon's Auxiliary.
She is survived by a daughter, Cheryl Heil (Ron), of Clive; three sons, David Jacobson, of Ames, Bruce Jacobson (Linda), of Storm Lake, and Dennis Jacobson, of Grimes; three stepdaughters, Yvonne Ward, Lenora Beth Stewart and Sara Jane Hefflefinger; a stepson, Charles Hefflefinger; 10 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren and two sisters, Dorothy Shepard of Geneva, N.Y. and Barb Olson (Burdette), of Story City.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles Hefflefinger; a daughter, Janice Kay Jacobson; grandson, Troy; granddaughter, Elizabeth Ann Heil; three brothers, Lloyd, Marvin and Jim Thompson; a sister, Shirley Anderson and a stepdaughter, Susan Erp.
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