Anna Geyer

KALONA ? Anna May (Fountain) Geyer, 87, of Kalona, died Monday, July 11, 2016, in the Pleasantview Home in Kalona.

A celebration of life will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 16, at the Sharon Center United Methodist Church in Kalona with the Rev. Erling Shultz and James Blake officiating. Burial will follow at the Sharon Center Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Peterseim Funeral Home in Kalona. A memorial fund has been established for the Sharon Center United Methodist Church and the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Mrs. Geyer was born Jan. 6, 1929, in Johnson County, the daughter of Vernon L. and Myrna E. (Van Syoc) Fountain. She married Richard Geyer on Feb. 14, 1948, at the Sharon Center EUB Church.

She attended Willow Grove No. 2 rural school, Sharon High School, University High School, and graduated from Kalona High School. She worked as a switchboard operator at Sharon Telephone, as a housekeeper at the University of Iowa for 26 years, and was a temp worker at ACT. She was a member of Sharon Center United Methodist Church, where she was active in the United Methodist Women. She enjoyed square dancing, camping, gardening, quilting, crocheting and knitting. Sharing her handwork was important to her, and she knitted stocking caps for babies at the University of Iowa Children?s Hospital; and when she and her husband spent their winters in Texas, she made comforters for a mission project in Mexico.

Surviving are three daughters, Linda Kemp and husband Noah, Joyce Wiles and husband Ron, and Christine Glosser, all of Kalona; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandsons; three step-great-grandchildren; one step-great-great-granddaughter; two sisters-in law, Ruth Fountain of Kalona, and Donna Isaacs and husband John of Iowa City; two brothers-in-law, Vernon Hepker of Nebraska, and Raymond Geyer and wife Mary of Wellman; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dick; one sister, Vera Hepker; one brother, Omer Fountain; and one granddaughter.