Joan C. (Emerson) PETERSON WHITMER

EMERSON, WHITMER, BAWN, COOPER, CORRIGAN, MEYER, PETERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/6/2010 at 15:09:59

WILTON, Iowa -- Joan C. Whitmer, 68, Wilton, died Sunday, April 27, 2003, at Unity Hospital, Muscatine. Services are 11 a.m. Wednesday at Bentley Funeral Home, Wilton. The Rev. Bruce Giese will officiate. Musical selections will be provided by organist Diana Gradert and vocalist Henry Bentley. Pallbearers are Tom Cooper, Loren Corrigan, Michael Whitmer, Lysle Whitmer, Nicholas Peterson, Trent Cooper and Robert Baillie. The honorary pallbearer is Madison Tomfeld. Burial will be at Oakdale Cemetery, Wilton. Visitation is 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Wilton First Responders.

Mrs. Whitmer was born on Aug. 28, 1934, in Eagle Grove, the daughter of Clarence and Nellie Bawn Emerson. She married Maurice E. Whitmer on Dec. 26, 1967, in Wilton. She graduated from the College of Medical Technicians, Minneapolis, Minn.
She was a medical technician in Davenport and Iowa City. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Eagle Grove. She enjoyed sewing, cooking, auctions and her family. She helped various elderly people in Wilton.

Survivors include her husband; three daughters, Michele 'Mickey' Cooper and her husband, Tom, and Teresa 'Terry' Meyer, all of Eagle Grove, and Susan Corrigan and her husband, Loren, of Cedar Rapids; three sons, Mark Peterson and his wife, Julia, of Wilton, Kurt Peterson and his wife, Betsy, of Davenport and Aaron Whitmer and fiance Shannon of Wilton; two brothers, Dr. Wayne Emerson of Eagle Grove and Dr. Dale Emerson and his wife, Sharon, of Ottumwa; and 11 grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Orin Emerson and Gerald Emerson.