Jane Greimann (1942-2006)

GREIMANN, RENNER, JARCHOW, TROTTER

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 2/8/2006 at 06:22:14

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, February 7, 2006.

After a courageous battle with lung cancer, the spirit of Jane Greimann, 64, of Ames, left her body and went to be with her Lord. She died at Israel Family Hospice in Ames on Saturday, Feb. 4.

A worship service entitled Witness to the Resurrection will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, at Collegiate Presbyterian Church in Ames with the Rev. Larry Mitchell and the Rev. Vicky Curtis officiating. In lieu of a post-worship reception, family and friends may gather to visit with Jane's family prior to the service at 9 a.m. in the church.

The body will be cremated followed by a private burial of her cremains in Iowa State University Cemetery prior to the worship service at 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 9.

Jane was born Jan. 25, 1942, in Klemme to Chet and Ina Mae (Jarchow) Renner. There she grew up on the farm, learning to love horses, holding leadership positions in 4-H and graduating from Klemme High School in 1960. She earned a degree from Iowa State University in textile and clothing in 1964 and a teaching certificate in 1980.

One week following graduation, she married Lowell Greimann June 7, 1964, in Klemme. They moved to Boulder, Colo. where she worked as a seamstress and then office worker to support her husband's further education and proudly bore their first son, Chad. The young family moved to San Antonio, where their second son, Blair, was born. While in Texas, she worked with children in the Hispanic community and low-income adults. The Greimanns returned to Ames in 1973 to be nearer parents and grandparents. She flew to Chicago in 1975 to bring home their adopted daughter, Amy, who just arrived from Vietnam.

She taught art, health and family and consumer science at Nevada Junior High School for 16 years. While teaching, she worked on studies of student health with regard to cholesterol, helped to start a breakfast program, taught parenting classes, made a five-week trip to Russia in 1992 and sat on the Board of Eastern Story County Youth and Shelter Services. She retired from full-time employment in 1998.

She served in almost every volunteer position at Collegiate Presbyterian Church, including chair of the most recent pastor search committee, elder, deacon, Sunday School teacher for both children and adults, co-leader of mid-week program for children, the Walk Through Bethlehem Project and other committees.

She served in the House of Representatives of the Iowa Legislature for five years and on such committees as public education funding, human services, environment, judicial, human resources and natural resources. She was on the Mid-Iowa Community Action Board and Hawk-I-State Board. She believed in more preventive programs and more humane sentencing laws in our corrections system.

She volunteered for several service activities in the community, including President of the Local League of Women Voters, Democratic caucus organizer, Ames Public Art Commission (she initiated Art Around the Corner in downtown Ames) and the Education and Prevention Board of Youth and Shelter Services. She was an alumnus and supporter of the Iowa State University College of Family and Consumer Science (now Human Sciences) and the ISU football and basketball programs.

A broad diversity of interests kept her active outside of her professional and volunteer career activities: horses, friends, shade gardening, painting, clay pottery and sculpture, home improvement projects, sewing, reading and cutting her husband's hair.

She will be greatly missed by her husband, Lowell Greimann of Ames; three children and six grandchildren, Chad (Chris) Greimann, and their children, Zachary, Emma, Alexander and Evelyn Mae of Iowa City, Amy (Winston) Trotter and their child Isabella of Bolingbrook, Ill., and Blair (Angie) Greimann and their child Eve of Denver, Colo. Additional survivors include her father, Chet (Elsie) Renner of Clear Lake; and two brothers, Bill Renner of Garner and Tom Renner of Ventura.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Ina Mae Renner.

A special time to gather in honor of the memory of her life will be at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 8, at Reiman Gardens (see www.reimangardens.iastate.
edu/index.cfm?nodeID=5727 for location) in Ames. Throughout the evening, opportunity will be given for friends and family to share personal remembrances of her.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Israel Family Hospice of Ames or the William R. Bliss Cancer Center, 1111 Duff Ave., Ames, IA, 50010.

http://www.amestrib.com
 

Story Obituaries maintained by Mark Christian.
WebBBS 4.33 Genealogy Modification Package by WebJourneymen