Jeanette I. Childers Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

Hiawatha, Iowa Visitation: beginning at 10:00 A.M. with family present between the hours of 6:00 and 8:00 P.M. November 08, 2005 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Funeral Service: 10:30 A.M. November 09, 2005 at Fremont Funeral Chapel Interment: Tioga Cemetery near Rose Hill, Iowa. Jeanette I. Childers, age 94, formerly of Fremont,died on Saturday, November 05, 2005 at the Hiawatha Care Center in Hiawatha, Iowa. Jeanette was born on February 8th, 1911 in rural Mahaska Couty the daughter of John and Mina Van Heukolem Feaster. She was raised and educated until the age of fifteen in Delta and then left home and graduated from Sigourney HIgh School with a Normal Certificate in teaching. On February 2, 1930 she was united in marriage to Dwight Childers in Oskaloosa, Iowa. During her life she worked at the Keokuk County Hospital, doing home nursing, where she delivered many babies,helped farm,made furniture by bark weaving, and repaired antique furniture. Jeanette always enjoyed the many wonderful people she met through woodworking. She moved to a retirement appartment in 1999 in Central City, Iowa and then in 2003 she moved into the Hiawatha Care Center. Jeanette was a member of the Union Chapel Church east of Fremont. Her memory is honored by her son Donivan Childers and his wife Helen of Central City, four grandchidlren, and seven great-grandchildren. Her parents, her husband, a son, Dwight James Childers in infancy, a foster daughter, Geraldine Mecum, a brother Hayden Feaster, and a sister, Mildred Denny, preceded her in death.

Jeanette I. Childers

February 8, 1911 - November 5, 2005

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