Marlene (McFate) Burkheimer (1950-2019)

BURKHEIMER, MCFATE, MIKKELSON, CONDON, PETERSON

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 12/21/2019 at 20:52:58

Obituary from Schroeder-Stark-Welin Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Boone, Iowa.

Marlene McFate Burkheimer, 69, of Ames passed away on Wednesday, December 4, 2019. She had been a resident at Hearth Stone Memory Care in Boone for several years. She was born on October 22, 1950 in Marshalltown, Iowa the daughter of Delmar and Edna Mikkelson McFate. She graduated from South Tama County high school in 1968 and then graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls in 1972. On July 1, 1988 she married Dennis Burkheimer at The Little Brown church in Nashua, Iowa. She worked in Human Resources her entire career, first at Job Service of Iowa in Davenport and Ames, and then at Iowa State University for more than 20 years before retiring in 2010.

In her spare time she loved to read, do crossword puzzles, put together jigsaw puzzles, work all types of word puzzles, and loved getting outdoors to Geocache. She loved traveling and especially enjoyed visiting all the National Parks in the lower 48 states and spending a few winters after retirement in Florida. Genealogy was also a great passion that she pursued long before the Internet made ancestral search much easier.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a nephew, Ian Michael McFate.

Survivors include her husband Dennis Burkheimer of Urbandale, stepson Christopher and Jenn Burkheimer of Brattleboro, Vermont, stepdaughter Angela and Curt Condon of Boone, Iowa, brothers Ron and Lucy McFate of Tama, Mark and Christine McFate of Toledo, Iowa and sister Danna and Wayne Peterson of Spring Hill, Florida. She also leaves behind several nieces and nephews.

No services are planned at this time.