Gail Elizabeth (Miller) REINGARDT

REINGARDT, MILLER, SCHAFER, HARTER, CHARLESTON, CHUKKER, DENGER, OLSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/13/2007 at 11:21:45

GAIL ELIZABETH REINGARDT

Iowa Falls Times Citizen
February 8, 2006

November 13, 1914 - February 2, 2006

Gail Elizabeth Reingardt, 91, of Iowa Falls, passed away Thursday, Feb. 2, 2006, at her home. Funeral services were held Monday, Feb. 6, at the First United Methodist Church, Iowa Falls, with the Rev. Don Preston officiating. Burial followed at the Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls. The Linn’s Funeral Homes Iowa Falls Chapel was in charge of arrangements.

Gail Elizabeth Miller was born Nov. 13, 1914, at her parents’ farm home near Popejoy, the daughter of George Arthur and Sarah Jane (Schafer) Miller. She attended the Dows Community Schools, graduating with the class of 1933. She did child care and was the nanny to angel Sandy and naughty Jerry Welden. On Sept. 24, 1940, she was united in marriage to Kenneth Conrad Reingardt in the Methodist Church parsonage, Hampton. To this union two children were born: Raejean and Merle. They farmed in Hamilton, Franklin and Hardin counties. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church, Iowa Falls. She really enjoyed going with her husband to their cabin in Hackensack, Minn., playing cribbage and crocheting.

Gail Reingardt is survived by her children, Raejean Schafer and husband Bob and Merle Reingardt and wife Ruth, all of Iowa Falls; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one sister, Marge Harter and husband Derwood of Farmhamville; and two sisters-in-law, Doris Charleston of Dows and Dorothy Dow and husband Bob of Oskaloosa. She was preceded in death by her parents, George and Sarah Miller; her husband, Kenneth Reingardt; her son-in-law, Kenneth Chukker; three sisters, Fern Denger, Dorothy Olson and Otella Johnson; and four brothers, Lincoln Miller, Virgil Miller, Bruce Miller and Glen Miller.