Joni (Armstrong) WARNER SMITH

ARMSTRONG, SMITH, CERNY, MULDAVIN, FALTISEK, WARNER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/9/2011 at 12:16:33

April 21, 1928 --- January 4, 2011

MASON CITY, IA - Joni Smith, a daughter of Cecil and Bessie (Cerny) Armstrong, was born at Clarion, April 21st, in the year of our Lord 1928, and at the age of 82, passed on with Tuesday's sunset at the Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa, at Mason City, Jan. 4th, in the year of our Lord 2011. Following a few weeks of suffering from a fractured pelvis, her departure was untimely and unexpected. At age seven, in a tent meeting on the north lawn of the Free Methodist Church in Plymouth, she was converted and she left the testimony that she had surrendered her life to the Lord, and was resigned to His will in the year of our Lord 1935. She was reared to young Christian womanhood at Plymouth, attended school there, worked faithfully for all that employed her, one of the first being Peshak Grocery. She was the editor of the high school newspaper, third in her class, and graduated in the year of our Lord 1946. She enjoyed 48 years with a good God fearin' man named Leo Warner, and cherished her last six years happily united with Kevin Smith. Joni enjoyed singing spiritual songs, reading the Bible, planting flowers, cooking, calligraphy, and watching the cardinals out her kitchen picture window, she called it her entertainment center. That's where she loved watching God's creation renew itself in the springtime. Joni will be remembered for her very kind and willing heart. She will be very deeply missed by family and friends alike. To know Joni was to know LOVE.

She leaves to mourn her departure, her loving husband, Kevin Smith. She is also survived by her sister-in-law, Fran Armstrong; nephew, James D. Armstrong, both of Alamogordo, N.M.; niece, Deborah Muldavin of Albuquerque, N.M.; nephew Michael Armstrong of Florida; aunt, Marguerite Armstrong of Lubbock, Texas; four grandnieces; one grandnephew; and many personal friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; step-father, Paul F. Faltisek; brother, James D. Armstrong; and a husband from her previous marriage, Leo R. Warner. A private family burial was held at Oakwood Cemetery on Thursday, January 6th, in the year of our Lord 2011. Memorial services will be held 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 10th, in the year of our Lord 2011, at Plymouth Bible Baptist Church, 808 Broad St., Plymouth, with Pastor Paul Schaefer and Pastor Glen Bandel officiating. Memorials may be directed to the Joni Smith Memorial Fund in care of the family. Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue, Mason City.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
January 9, 2011