Iris Mildred (Sherwood) LAFAVRE

LAFAVRE, SHERWOOD, GRIGGS, SASSE, KALLEVIG, PETERSON, GERDES, EMMONS, SHELDON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/15/2010 at 22:15:21

September 21, 1998
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette

KLEMME< IA — Iris Mildred LaFavre, 87, died Saturday (Sept. 19, 1998) at the home of her daughter in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at United Methodist Church, Klemme, with the Rev. Curtis DeVance officiating. Interment will be in Amsterdam Cemetery, Goodell. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Tenold Funeral Home in Klemme. Memorials may be directed to Hospice of North Iowa.

Iris Mildred (Sherwood) LaFavre, the daughter of William Leon and Margaret Emily (Griggs) Sherwood, was born May 2, 1911, in rural Goodell. She graduated from Goodell High School and attended Drake University Junior High School Teaching Program. She taught at Numa Schools and moved to teach at Latimer Junior High. She retired from teaching in 1939 and married Clell "Pat" LaFavre on July 1, 1939, in Unionville, Mo. They lived in Des Moines where she worked for Broadlawns Hospital with the iron lung for polio patients. They moved to the farm in rural Klemme in 1941. A very special interest of Iris and her sister was the development of Eldridge Sherwood Park, which was part of their land. She and Pat were active in the National Dairy Association, being especially interested in brown Swiss dairy cows, winning many awards. Her special interests were horses, reading and communicating with many friends and acquaintances. Her happiness was her grandchildren and following their lives. She was an active member of the Goodell and Klemme United Methodist Churches, holding various offices.

Iris is survived by her son, Jerry LaFavre, Lakeville, Minn.; a daughter, Margaret Sasse and her husband, Gus, Mason City; grandchildren, Scott L. LaFavre and his wife, Shari, Lakeville, Minn., Jeffrey L. LaFavre and his wife, Maxine, Burnsville, Minn., Adam T. LaFavre, Prior Lake, Minn., Cherrie Peterson and her husband, Tim, Owatonna, Minn., Rachelle C. Kallevig and her husband, Larry, Plymouth, Minn., Robert A. Gerdes and his wife, Kendra, Waukesha, Wis.; great-grandchildren, Dustin, Christal Ann, Brittney, Bethany, Landon, Lauren, Alexis, Alana and Austin LaFavre, Trey, Rachelle, Chantel and Trom Peterson; a sister, LaVonne Emmons, Emmons, Minn.; step-grandchildren, Robert Sasse and his wife, Kim, Joel Sasse and his fiance, LaBeth Sheldon, and Carl Sasse and his wife, Sandy; step-great-grandchildren, Kristen, Courtney, Chandler, and Devlynn Sasse, and many nephews, nieces, cousins, friends, and her cat, "Simon." She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Clell "Pat" LaFavre.