Alexander, Connie -- 1947 - 2010

STREET, SHEETS, DOBERT, RIPPENKROEGER, BROWN, MINDER, WOODS, CHAPLIN, ALEXANDER, RYNER

Posted By: Bill Waters (email)
Date: 2/9/2011 at 14:11:06

CONNIE ALEXANDER STREET
WAPELLO, Iowa -- Connie Alexander Street of Wapello, Iowa, died October 25, 2010 at the University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa.

Memorial visitation from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 pm on Saturday, October 30, 2010, at Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home, 1931 Houser Street, Muscatine, Iowa. The body has been cremated. Memorial donations may be made to Population Connection, 1400 16th Street NW, Suite 320, Washington, D.C. 20036

She was the daughter of Gene and Hazel Sheets Alexander of Keosauqua. She was a graduate of Van Buren Community High School in Keosauqua and attended Iowa Wesleyan College.

She married Douglas Dobert on May 7, 1966, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were later divorced. On June 20, 1989, in Salem, Iowa, she married Keith Street.

She was a charter member of the Old Fort Genealogical Society in Fort Madison and the Fort Madison Friends of the Library. She had been active and held offices in a number of genealogical and historical societies in Iowa. She was a member of the Hacker’s Creek Pioneer Descendants and a charter member of the Mining Your History Foundation, both in West Virginia. She was elected to six terms on the executive council of the Iowa Genealogical Society, serving as president in 1995 and 1996. She presented programs on genealogy in several states at local, state and national family history gatherings. She enjoyed creating Web pages on genealogical topics.

She is a former president of the Wapello chapter of Kiwanis International, and former member of the Columbus Junction Community Club and had served on the Muscatine-Louisa Chapter of the American Red Cross board of directors. She had also served as an officer of the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Iowa, the Fort Madison Community Action agency and the Lee County Democratic Central Committee.

She received the Governor's Volunteer Award in 1990 and volunteer recognition from the State Historical Society of Iowa in 1990, 1992 and 1993. She also received a Commander’s Award for Public Service from the Department of the Army after spending two weeks in Jutiapa, Guatemala, with Joint Task Force Timberwolf in 1995.

Mrs. Street worked most recently as a reporter for the Muscatine Journal, editor of the Wapello Republican newspapers and Manager for the Louisa County Historical Society Museum.

She was a firm believer in family planning and zero population growth.

Survivors include her children, Alan Dobert of Fort Myers, Florida, and Beth Rippenkroeger of Charles City, Iowa; four step-daughters, Alisa Brown of Muscatine, Julie Minder and husband, Rob, of Muscatine, and Sheilah Woods and husband, Jon, of Muscatine, and Laura Chaplin and husband, Mark, of Sugar Grove, Illinois; 23 grandchildren and step-grandchildren; two brothers, Leon Alexander of Midway, Georgia, and Donald Alexander of Lebanon, Missouri; and a sister, Wanda Ryner and husband, John, of Galesburg, Illinois.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.
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(She was active in the IAGenWeb serving as the county coordinator for Louisa and Cedar counties.)