Beverly F. (Steigerwalt) Pellett
Born: September 19, 1931 in Glidden, Carroll Co., Iowa
Died: April 11, 1985 in Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 301
Lot Owner: Frank Pellett, purchased in 1985
Married: Frank Pellett on May 13, 1951 in Glidden, Carroll Co., Iowa
Children: Flint , Dirk , Brant , Chert, Kay and Jeanne Lundberg
Parents: George and Zelma (Ramey) Steigerwalt
Beverly Pellett
Funeral services for Mrs. Franklin (Beverly Frances) Pellett, 53, of Rt. 2, Newton, a resident of Newton since 1961 and owner-operator of Pellett Plant America, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 13 at the Metz Church.
The Rev. Harold Den Hartog, pastor of the church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery.
Visitation will be held at the church prior to the service. There will be no visitation at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home. Memorial contributions to the Metz Church will be accepted.
She died Thursday, April 11, at the University Hospital in Iowa City.
Survivors are her husband; four sons, Flint of Urbana, Ill., Dirk of Champaign, Ill.; Brant of Long Beach, Calif., and Chert of Ames; two daughters, Jeanne Lundberg of Newton and Kay Pellett of Pella; and five grandchildren.
Also surviving are two brothers, George Steigerwalt II of Hyde Park, N.Y., and William Steigerwalt of Minneapolis, Minn.,; and two sisters, Mrs. Earnest (Lou) Winslow of Irwin, Mo., and Mrs. Frank (Marlene) Sherwin of Fullerton, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Mrs. Pellett was a member of the Metz Church, Daughters of the American Revolution, DCH, Daughters of the Founders and Patriots, Sugar Grove Grange, Women's Activity Committee and the Sugar Grove Ladies Club.
The daughter of George and Zelma Ramey Steigerwalt, she was born Sept 19, 1931 in Glidden, attended Glidden High School and Iowa State University in Ames for three years as a science major. She was married May 13, 1951 in Glidden.
Franklin C. Pellett
Birth: October 2, 1930 in Lehigh, Webster Co., Iowa
Died: August 4, 2004, Iowa City, Johnson Co., Iowa
Buried: Cremated, no memorial stone
Married: Beverly F. Steigerwalt on May 13, 1951 in Glidden, Carroll Co., Iowa
Children: Flint , Dirk , Brant , Chert, Kay and Jeanne Lundberg
Married: Denise Mathiesen on June 16, 1991, in Metz, Jasper Co., Iowa
Parents: Kent and Marie (Sumerbell) Pellett
Frank Pellett
Franklin C. "Frank" Pellett, 73, of Newton died Wednesday, Aug. 4, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City.
No services are scheduled.
Friends may call from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton where the family will be available with a coffee time in the social room. Memorials will be accepted in his name and may be left at the funeral home.
The son of Kent and Marie (Sumerbell) Pellett, he was born Oct. 2, 1930 in Lehigh. He was a graduate of Hudson High School and also graduated from Iowa State University in Ames. He married Beverly Steigerwalt in 1951 in Hudson. He later married Denise Mathiesen on June 16, 1991, in rural Newton.
Mr. Pellet and his first wife owned and operated Pellett's Nursery. They started the business in Glidden in 1959, and in 1961 moved the business to Newton. He was apart of the Environmental Action Group that started the Newton Recycling Center. He started the first Prairie Flower Preserve in Iowa along old Highway 6y, west of Newton by his nursery. He worked for the U.S. Forest Service in the late 1950's in Washington and Oregon. He and his crew planted more than 1 million trees during the time that he worked. He was a member of the Metz Church and Sugar Grove Grange.
Survivors include his wife, Denise, four sons and two daughters-in-law, Flint and Nancy Jane Pellett of Urbana, Ill., Dirk Pellett of Scotts Valley, Calif., Brant Pellett of Los Angeles Calif., and Chert and Cheryl Pellett of Highland Village, Texas; two daughters and a son-in-law, Jeanne Lundberg of Newton and Kay and Will Eberart of Urbana, Ill.; nine grandchildren; 1 great-grand child, a brother and sister-in-law, David and Janice Pellett of Narragansett, R.I.; a sister, Susan Penn of Manhattan, Mont.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his first wife. ~ Newton Daily News, Friday, Aug 6, 2004, Page 2A