Carol Lavonne (Walters) OKLAND

OKLAND, WALTERS, PHIPPS, SCHULTE, GAASCH, SCHULTE-GAASCH, CARNAHAN, TARANTO, KIRSTEIN, MALIN, MAYFIELD, ASKAY, ACKERMAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/13/2014 at 12:11:37

June 22, 1932 --- October 9, 2014

Carol L. Okland, age 82, of Waterloo, formerly of Dows passed away Thursday October 9, 2014 at the Country View Nursing Home in Waterloo. Funeral services for Carol L. Oakland will be held at 1:30 P.M. Monday October 13, 2014 at the First Lutheran Church in Dows. Pastor Ron Nelson will officiate. Burial will take place in the Fairview Cemetery. Visitation for Carol L. Oakland will be held from 12:30 – service time on Monday at the church in Dows. Dugger Funeral Home, 100 North Lee Street in Dows is in charge of arrangements.

Carol Lavonne was born on June 22, 1932 to Leonard and Beulah Phipps Walters in Boone. Carol was raised on a farm outside of Boone and graduated from Boone High School in 1950. Carol married Marlowe Dean Okland on June 22, 1952 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They lived in rural Huxley until moving to their farm south of Dows in 1953. They were blessed with four daughters. Carol was a farm wife and homemaker. Carol attended Ellsworth Community College where she received her Associate Degree. Carol worked for the Dept. of Human Services for the State of Iowa. Carol moved to Marshalltown in 1977 to be close to her husband who had a severe stroke and was in the Iowa Veterans Home. Upon Marlowe’s death Carol retired and moved to Ames in 1986. Carol was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Dows and was also in Ladies Aid Club.

Those left to cherish here memories are her daughters Debra (Ron) Schulte-Gaasch of Pacific Grove, Ca., Sharon Okland of Ames and Karen (Mervin) Carnahan of Cedar Falls. Her grandchildren Jennifer (Chris) Taranto, Jill Kirstein, Nichole (Jay) Malin, Alisha (Mark) Mayfield, John (Melody) Schulte, Joe (Leslie) Schulte, Jenna Askay and Leah Ackerman. And 14 great-grand children. Carol is preceded in death by her parents, husband, her daughter Marlene Kirstein, four brothers Bob, Don, Pete and Jerry Walters and one infant granddaughter Summer Schulte.

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