K. Janette (Jaeger) EVERHART

EVERHART, JAEGER, WILLIAMS, JARDIN, JOHNSON, RIEKEN, RUBIN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/7/2007 at 10:39:54

September 6, 1999
Mason City Globe-Gazette

CLEAR LAKE - K. Janette Everhart, 91, died Sunday (Sept. 5, 1999) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Congregational Church in Clear Lake with the Rev. Thomas Healey officiating. Burial will be in Clear Lake Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 p.m. until service time Tuesday at the church. The family of K. Janette Everhart has requested that memorial contributions be made to Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City in her memory. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, is in charge of the arrangements.

K. Janette Everhart was born on July 28, 1908, in Alden, Iowa, the daughter of Anton Charles and Dakota (Williams) Jaeger. She attended the Independence, Iowa, school system to the third grade and then attended the Brandon school system, graduating from Brandon High School in 1925. She also attended and graduated from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, which is now called the University of Northern Iowa, receiving her teacher's certificate in 1928. After completing her education at Cedar Falls, she began teaching fifth and sixth grade music for one year in Gaza, Iowa. She then returned to Cedar Falls. She was united in marriage to Frank McQueen Everhart on Aug. 29, 1929, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He preceded her in death in 1975. After their marriage, she completed her education with a bachelor of arts degree in English and music, graduating in 1930. After completing her schooling, they moved to Fontanelle where her husband Frank taught school and Janette gave birth to Betty Jean, Ina Marie and Loraine. In 1938 they moved to Pleasantville where her husband taught school for two years. They moved to Tipton in 1940, where Robert Charles was born. In 1944 they moved to Eagle Grove where she was active in the Congregational Church, music club, and played the piano at the Rotary Club and nursing home. In 1968 they moved to Clear Lake where Janette was very active in the Congregational Church in Clear Lake, played the piano at Opportunity Village and the Oakwood Care Center where she lived out her last five years. She enjoyed music, gardening, reading and loved the lake.

Left to cherish her memory are four children, Betty Jardin of Costa Mesa, Calif., Ina Johnson and her husband Lloyd of Williams, Iowa, Loraine Rieken and her husband Marvin of Manson, Wash., and Robert Charles Everhart of Livonia, Mich.; 12 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren; one sister, Ruth L. Rubin of Bellevue, Wash.; and other relatives and friends. Besides her husband, Frank Everhart, who died in 1975, she was preceded in death by her parents. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel