Janet (York) BRIDGES REESE

BRIDGES, REESE, YORK, SCHALINSKE, URIEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/12/2009 at 10:21:17

January 12, 2009
Fort Dodge Messenger, Iowa

WINTER HAVEN, FLA. - Janet Y.(Bridges) Reese, 89, of Winter Haven, Fla., formerly of Fort Dodge, and Crosslake, Minn. passed away peacefully and with dignity on Friday, Jan. 9, 2009 in Johnston, IA. Predeceased by husbands, Frederick E Reese, and Wilbur I Bridges (WWII MIA), and son, Richard L Bridges Reese, parents, Lester and Marie York, and infant sister, Joyce Aileen. Survived by her loving children, Frederick II, Polk City, Anne Schalinske, Burnsville, Minn., Robert of Ankeny, and Debra Uriel of Omaha, Neb., 11 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, two sisters, one brother, and nieces, nephews and cousins. Janet graduated from Drake University in 1941, and taught physical education in the Iowa communities of Eagle Grove, Lamoni and Fort Dodge. She retired from teaching in 1981. They sold their Fort Dodge home and retired to Winter Haven in 1985, and they continued to journey north to Crosslake, Minn. for their summer months on the Whitefish Chain of lakes until 1997. Janet enjoyed golfing, fishing, tennis, walking, sewing, pine needle basket making/teaching, as well as playing her organ. Fort Dodge School District has lost another great teacher! Per her wishes, private family gravesite service and inurnment at Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, at a later date. In lieu of flowers, cards/memorials can be sent to Hamilton's Funeral Home, 121 NW 60th Avenue, Des Moines, IA., 50313.