Narveson, Daryl J. (1928-2018)

NARVESON, TRYGGESTAD, LUNDBERG, HENDERSON, HELLER

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 11/16/2018 at 16:52:55

Daryl J. Narveson
August 5, 1928 - October 11, 2018

Daryl Jeanne Narveson, age 90, of Grinnell, died on Thursday morning, October 11, 2018, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

The second of the three children of Ruth and Harmon Lundberg, Daryl Jeanne Narveson was born in Forest City, Iowa, on August 5, 1928. She graduated from Forest City High School in 1946 and attended Waldorf College for one year before leaving school to care for her mother. At Waldorf, Daryl met John Roger Narveson, a fellow student. He had just returned stateside after serving with the Army Corps of Engineer’s Civilian Construction Corps in Hawaii. He and Daryl began to date.

Daryl married John at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Forest City, on August 21, 1949. He, later, enrolled at Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls (now UNI). Married student housing at the time consisted of rows of post-World War II Quonset huts.

John’s teaching career took the growing family first to Orient, then to Manchester, and finally to Charles City, Iowa. Baby boomers all, Lynn was born in Forest City, Mark in Manchester, Lisa in Vermillion, South Dakota, and Scott in Charles City.

During their decades in Charles City, Daryl worked at the high school in the English and Business Education departments. In addition, she worked at NIACC’s Charles City satellite in the nursing program. In 1965, John left teaching to accept a position at Salsbury Laboratories as a systems and research analyst.

While living in Charles City, Daryl, especially, enjoyed volunteering at the public library; perhaps proudest of her fundraising work with the Mooney Collection Committee at the library, she, too, worked at preserving, restoring, and cataloguing the Mooney art collection (an ongoing project). Already an accomplished seamstress, she joined the Congregational Church’s hand quilting group, learned that craft, and came to love the satisfying collaboration with her friends in the shared creation of these works of art.

A superb household engineer, Daryl had her various tasks timed so that she could complete them by 1:00 p.m. to protect her voracious reading schedule. Nevertheless, she made an exception to that rule on Wednesdays so that she could spend all-day ironing while listening to opera (and sing along) as she starched, sprinkled, refrigerated, and pressed her wash. Her husband and children benefited from her organizational and creative homemaking skills; she, always, would make their evening meal from scratch and have it on the table at 5:30 p.m. on the dot. The Narvesons cherish their memories of these gatherings. For them, supper time provided much more than the items on Daryl’s menu. It afforded them an hour out of ordinary time to reconnect as a family: to share, to laugh, and to tell stories around the table. While not usually at the table (perhaps under it), the family, over the years, included a collection of quirky canine and feline babies.

Living family members include two daughters and their husbands, Lynn and David Tryggestad, of Duluth, Minnesota, and Lisa and Roger Henderson, of Grinnell; two sons and their wives, Mark and Jeanne Narveson, of Nora Springs, and Scott and Pamela Narveson, of Apple Valley, Minnesota; six grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; and a brother, Douglas Lundberg, of Humboldt, Iowa. Daryl was preceded in death by her parents, a beloved grandchild, Kathryn Jean Heller; her husband, John; and her brother, James.

A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, October 14, 2018, at the Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell. Visitation will take place from 9:30 until 10:30 a.m. before her service. Burial will follow at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, October 15, 2018, at Sunnyside Memory Gardens south of Charles City. The Rev. David Tryggestad, her son-in-law, will officiate at both services.

In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer memorials to the Grinnell High School Fine Arts Alliance, the Drake Community Library in Grinnell, or the St. Francis Manor Foundation, mailed in care of the Smith Funeral Home, PO Box 368, Grinnell, Iowa 50112.

Smith Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Grinnell, Iowa, 2018.

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