Eloise Ruth (Dimmet) PRESCOTT

PRESCOTT, DIMMET, WALDEN, ECKARD, BINGMAN, CHRISTENSON, WESTOVER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/4/2011 at 22:56:52

February 6, 1925 --- April 30, 2011

CLEAR LAKE, IA - Eloise R. Prescott, 86, of Clear Lake passed away Saturday, April 30, 2011, at the Oakwood Care Center in Clear Lake surrounded by her loving family. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 6, at the Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane S. in Belmond. Pastor Carolyn Pflibsen of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond will officiate. Burial will take place in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City at 1 p.m. on Friday. Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, May 5, at the Dugger Funeral Home in Belmond and continue one hour prior to services on Friday.

Eloise Ruth, the daughter of Joel L. and Nellie V. Walden Dimmet, was born Feb. 6, 1925, in Kansas City, Mo. To say Eloise lived a lifetime as a young girl would be an understatement. Her experiences as a little girl were very unique. She suffered from polio and had treatments and surgery at Shriners Hospital in Chicago multiple times. Eloise attended grade school in Clinton, Iowa, and attended high school at a Bible college in Clinton. She moved to Gary, Ind., where she graduated from Emerson High School in 1943. Influenced by a women who helped to raise her, Eloise was a very devout member of the Nazarene Church, sometimes attending three to six times a week. Eloise was united in marriage to Roger L. Prescott on Dec. 30, 1942, in Gary, Ind. The couple moved to Mason City and then later to an acreage north of Clear Lake. Eloise lived on the acreage from 1949 until after Roger passed away in May of 1990. She then moved to an apartment in Clear Lake, where she lived until entering the Oakwood Care Center in 2003. Eloise and Roger were blessed with three boys, James, Gerald and Dennis. Eloise belonged to several organizations in Clear Lake over the years. They included DAV Auxiliary, where she served as the DAV Auxiliary commander, Senior Citizens, the Oakland Club and the North Iowa Travel Club. She loved doing crafts, crocheting, gardening and camping. Eloise's life was her family, and she greatly enjoyed the family get-togethers which happened often throughout the years.

Eloise is survived by children, James of Waukesha, Wis.: Dennis and wife Lavonne of Belmond; daughter-in-law, Sandra of Sheffield; grandchildren, Monica Eckard of Sheffield: Brian and wife Mollie of Galesburg, Ill.: Cathy Bingman and husband, Chad of Williamsburg, Va.: Joel of Belmond: Kristin of West Des Moines; two great-grandchildren, Nicholas Prescott: Matthew Eckard; brother-in-law, Ronald and wife Helen of Raceland, Ky.; two sisters-in-law, Marlys Christenson and husband, Ray of Clear Lake: and Maxine Westover of Clear Lake. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Roger; son, Gerald, June 26, 2010; grandson, Billy, on April 30, 1982; and two great-grandsons, Nathan and Joshua Eckard. Dugger Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
May 5, 2011