NERAD, Jenna Lynn 1982-2006

NERAD

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 8/6/2006 at 21:56:26

Jenna Lynn Nerad, 23, of Iowa City, formerly of Northwood, died Tuesday (Aug. 1, 2006) at her home in Iowa City.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, at the First Lutheran Church, 309 N. Ninth St., Northwood, with the Rev. Wayne Hagen and the Rev. Barbara Wills officiating. Following the services, and according to her wishes, cremation will take place with inurnment at a later date in the cemetery in Toeterville.

Visitation will be held from 5 until 8 p.m. today at the Conner Colonial Chapel, 1008 First Ave. S., Northwood. Visitation will also be one hour prior to service time on Saturday at the church.

Jenna Lynn Nerad was born on Sept. 19, 1982, in Osage, the daughter of Randy Nerad and Cynthia (Brizius) Pangburn. She attended and received her elementary education in the Northwood-Kensett Community Schools, and completed her final years in high school in St. Ansgar, graduating in the class of 2001.

Jenna also received her LPN degree from Kirkwood College in Iowa City, and would have been a senior this year at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, and would have graduated with an RN degree in 2007.

While attending college, Jenna also worked at the Oaknoll Nursing Home and at the Hamburg Restaurant in Iowa City.

Jenna loved animals, writing poetry, reading, flowers and running. She was a free spirit, loved life and had a big heart. She loved everyone and never was judgmental, loved the elderly people, and believed that we shouldn’t judge people for how they looked on the outside, but how they looked on the inside.

Jenna also enjoyed traveling with family and friends, and had traveled to the northwest, south, and the west coast, but loved the northwest coast the most and was hoping to be a nurse in the Seattle, Wash., area when she graduated from nursing school.

Left to cherish her memory are her parents, Cynthia Pangburn, of Northwood, and Randy Nerad, of St. Ansgar; brother, Riley Pangburn, of Northwood; and a sister, Kendra Nerad, of St. Ansgar; step-father, Gary Pangburn, of Northwood; paternal grandparents, Victor (Linda) Nerad, of St. Ansgar; maternal grandmother, Colleen Brizius, of Eagan, Minn.; two aunts, Kathy (Don) Kocian, of Springfield, Mo., and Vickie (Tedd) Maakestad, of Osage; cousins, Kimberly (Brent) Creach, of St. Louis, Mo., and Lucas and Garrett Maakestad, of Osage; godmother, Sherry Olson of Northwood; and her godfather, Jeff Koster of Fort Collins, Colo.; as well as other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Russell Brizius; her paternal grandmother, Verla Mae Nerad; and her uncle, Raymond Reeves.

Source: Mason City Globe Gazette, August 4, 2006