Jane (Renner) GREIMANN

RENNER, GREIMANN, JARCHOW, TROTTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/10/2010 at 16:13:27

The Garner Leader & Signal -- Iowa
February 15, 2006

Jane Greimann, of Ames, died at the Israel Family Hospice in Ames on Saturday, February 4, 2006, following a battle with lung cancer. She was 64. A worship service entitled Witness to the Resurrection was held on Thursday, February 9, at the Collegiate Presbyterian Church in Ames. The Rev. Larry Mitchell and the Rev. Vicky Curtis officiated. A private burial of her cremains was in the ISU Cemetery. The Adams Funeral Home of Ames was in charge of the arrangements. Jane Greimann was born on January 25, 1942, in Klemme to Chet and Ina Mae (Jarchow) Renner. She grew up on the farm, learning to love horses. She held leadership positions in 4-H. She graduated from the Klemme High School in 1960. She graduated from Iowa State University in Textile and Clothing in 1964. She earned a teaching certificate in 1980.

Jane married Lowell Greimann in Klemme on June 7, 1964. They moved to Boulder, Colorado, where she worked as a seamstress and then office worker to support her husband's further education and proudly bore their first son, Chad. The family moved to San Antonio where their second son, Blair was born. While in Texas, Jane worked with children in the Hispanic community and low-income adults. The Greimanns returned to Ames in 1973. Jane flew to Chicago in 1975 to bring home their adopted daughter, Amy who arrived from VietNam.

Jane taught art, health, and family and consumer science at the Nevada Junior High for 16 years. She worked on studies of student health with regard to cholesterol, helped to start a breakfast program, taught parenting classes, made a five-week trip to Russia in 1992, and sat on the Board of Eastern Story County Youth and Shelter Services. She retired from full-time employment in 1998. Jane held numerous volunteer positions at the Collegiate Presbyterian Church, including chair of the most recent pastor search committee, Elder, Deacon, Sunday School Teacher for both children and adults, co-leader of mid-week program for children, the Walk Through Bethlehem Project and other committees. She served in the House of Representatives of the Iowa Legislature for five years on such committees as public education funding, human services, environment, judicial, human resources, and natural resources. She was on the Mid-Iowa Community Action Board and Hawk-I-State Board. Jane believed in more preventive programs and more humane sentencing laws in our corrections system. Her volunteer work also included President of the local League of Women Voters, Democratic Caucus organizer, Ames Public Art Commission and the Education and Prevention Board of Youth and Shelter Services. She was an alumnus and supporter of the Iowa State University College of Family and Consumer Science (now Human Sciences) and the ISU Football and Basketball programs. A broad diversity of interests kept Jane active outside of her professional life.

Survivors include her husband, Lowell Greimann of Ames; three children and six grandchildren, Chad (Chris) Greimann, and their children, Zachary, Emma, Alexander and Evelyn Mae of Iowa City, Amy (Winston) Trotter and their child, Isabella of Bolingbrook. Illinois and Blair (Angie) Greimann and their child, Eve of Denver, Colorado. Additional survivors include her father, Chet (Elsie) Renner of Clear Lake; and two brothers, Bill Renner of Garner and Tom Renner of Ventura.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Ina Mae Renner.