Evelyn Pearl (Smalley) LANSING

LANSING, SMALLEY, DENCKLAU

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/26/2015 at 19:03:39

January 13, 1933 --- April 21, 2015

Evelyn Pearl Lansing, 82 of Fort Dodge, IA and formerly of Perry, IA passed away on April 21, 2015 at the Villa Care Nursing Home. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 24, 2015 at the First United Methodist Church in Perry. Burial will be in Beaver (Amaqua) Cemetery, at 1:30 p.m. Friday. Visitation will begin at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 23, 2015 with the family receiving friends from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. at Murdock Funeral Home in Perry. A memorial has been established in her name.

Evelyn was born January 13, 1933 in a farmhouse north of Beaver, IA. As a child she attended local schools and graduated from Grand Junction High School in 1951. She attended McPherson College of the Brethren in McPherson Kansas. She returned home to help with the family beekeeping business. On October 25, 1953 she was united in marriage to Ralph Junior Lansing of Ogden in the Brethren Church in Beaver, IA. They made their home in Ogden and Perry communities until 1965 at which time they moved to the Vincent, IA area. Evelyn was employed as a bookkeeper at the NEW Co-op until 1977 when the couple returned to Perry. She continued to work as a bookkeeper in local businesses in the Perry area until her retirement in 1995. In 2013 when Evelyn's health started to fail they moved to Fort Dodge to be closer to family. She was a member of the first United Methodist Church and the Perry Piece Makers Quilt Club. She enjoyed quilt making and ceramics.

Left to cherish Evelyn's memory is her husband, Ralph; children Mary (LeLand) Dencklau of Vincent, IA; Russell (Janet) Lansing of Fort Dodge, IA and David (Colette) Lansing of Fort Dodge, IA; six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. In death, Evelyn rejoins her parents, Russell and Eva Smalley and sister Donna.

Perry Chief -- Perry, Iowa
April 24, 2015