GARNAS, Nan E. 1921-2005

GARNAS

Posted By: Gordon Felland (email)
Date: 9/14/2005 at 17:12:58

Nan Elizabeth Garnas, 84, formerly of Kensett, died Friday (Sept. 9, 2005) at the Good Shepherd Health Center in Mason City after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Highway 65 South, Northwood, with the Rev. Wayne Hagen from the First Lutheran Church officiating. Burial will take place at the the Kensett Cemetery, Kensett.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Tuesday at the funeral home.

Nan was born on May 22, l921, in Northwood, to Dr. Leland and Emma (Quandahl) Hewitt. She lived and went to school in Northwood. She graduated from high school in l939. She then went to college to obtain a teaching degree. Nan taught school in rural schools and at Fenton, Iowa, for several years. She met Leonard Garnas and they married on Oct. 28, 1946. One child was born to this union. Nan helped her husband farm for several years. In 1980 they retired, bought a house and moved to Kensett.

Nan served on many comittees in her lifetime. She loved being with people and helping in any capacity she could. Her favorite job was serving on the City Council in Kensett. Nan also loved spending time with her granddaughters. She was very special to them.

Nan was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard, in 1992; her parents; Leonard’s parents; two brothers, Leland and Kent Hewitt; three brothers-in-law; two sisters- in-law; and many dear friends.

Survivors include her daughter, Nancy Miller and her husband, Dale, of Thornton; two granddaughters, Melaine Engebretson of Thornton and Mindy Arndt of Manly; six great-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Margaret Cosner of California and Evelyn Garnas of Clear Lake; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Source: Mason City Globe Gazette, 9/12/2005