Malinda Homan

Malinda Homan Services: 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Waverly. Visitations: 3-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, Kaiser-Corson Funeral Home, Waverly; and one hour prior to services Monday, church. WAVERLY, Iowa -- Malinda Homan, 103, Waverly, died Thursday, Oct. 26, 2006, at the Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community, Waverly, from complications of a stroke. Burial will be at Harlington Cemetery, Waverly. Memorials may be directed to St. Paul's Endowment Fund or to the Bartels Chaplaincy Fund. Mrs. Homan was born July 20, 1903, at home in Western Douglas Township, near Plainfield, Iowa, the daughter of Fred and Louise Bergman Joens. She married Adolph Homan on Sept. 15, 1921, at St. John Lutheran Church, Western Douglas. He preceded her in death June 3, 1981. She was baptized at St. John UCC, Siegel, and later confirmed at St. John Lutheran Church, Western Douglas. She attended country school near her home and following her formal education she helped her family on the farm. She and her husband moved onto the Homan family farm in Western Douglas and she became the hired man and a housewife. They farmed until 1948 when they moved to Waverly, se...[more]

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ng the farm several years later. In 1949, she went to work for Lutheran Mutual Life Insurance Co., Waverly, as the lunch room hostess, serving in that capacity until retiring in 1969. The couple continued to live in Waverly where they enjoyed their retirement. After the death of her husband, she continued to live in their home until unexpected surgery caused her to experience a short stay at Bartels Lutheran Retirement Community before moving to her apartment at the Eichhorn Haus. She was a longtime, faithful member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Waverly, where throughout the years she had been active with women's fellowship including the quilting guild, do-day and circle. She very much enjoyed raising her flowers and when you passed her home it would be surrounded by her lovely plantings. She and her family traveled, but she just loved spending time with her family, a family she was so proud of. Survivors include five daughters, Lucille Buhr of Sumner, Bernita Holm and husband Howard of West Des Moines, Dorothy Baker and husband Jim of Sun City, Calif., Betty Westmeyer and husband Russell of Waverly and Gladys Reif and husband Glenn of Muscatine; 14 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; seven grandchildren, Kenton James Klemp, Thomas R. Klemp, James Baker Jr., Vicky Jean Westmeyer, Jeffery Dean Westmeyer, Lora Lea Reif and Rebecca Anne Reif; a son-in-law, Herbert Buhr; four brothers, Alfred, Edwin, Herbert and Elmer; and two sisters, Amanda Joens and Adella Hartman.