| Lois Ollivene Linn Carroll
Lois Ollivene Linn, 88, of Carroll, died Friday, Oct. 16,
2009, at the St. Anthony Nursing Home in Carroll.
Funeral service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, at Kessler
Funeral Home in Audubon. Pastor Rod Block will officiate.
Visitation with the family present will be from 12:30 p.m. until
the time of service Tuesday at the funeral home.
Burial will be in the Arlington Heights Cemetery at Audubon.
Casket bearers will be Dale Linn, Brian Boken, Blaine Boken,
Lonnie Munyon, Wayne Hick, James Dennis and Ron Martin. Honorary casket
bearers will be Richard Haskins, Rod Dennis, Seth Linn and Marv Munyon.
A daughter of Lester Warren and Neola Wealthy (Reynolds) Potter,
she was born Dec. 31, 1920, at her parent's home in rural Audubon
County. She attended rural schools in Audubon County, then worked for other families.
She was baptized May 15, 1977, at the Christian Church in Audubon.
On Nov. 23, 1938, she married Lyle Willis Linn at the Christian
Church Parsonage in Audubon. The couple lived on several different
farms, then in 1949, they moved next to the school in Viola. She and her
husband boarded schoolteachers in their home for many years. Also during
this time, she was employed as a cook at the Viola School. They lived in
Viola until the Viola School closed, moving into Audubon in 1976. There,
she worked as a part-time cook for the Audubon Schools for several
years, then returned to being a homemaker.
Lyle died Jan. 20, 2000, and Mrs. Linn remained in her home,
traveling to Florida to spend the winters with her sons. She later lived
with her daughter, Charlotte, for a short time before moving to St.
Anthony Nursing Home in May of 2007.
She was a member of the Christian Church in Audubon, until the
church closed, at which time she became a member of the Church of Christ
in Audubon. The Linns enjoyed traveling and she also enjoyed playing
cards, doing arts and crafts, crossword puzzles and word search.
Survivors include her children: Charlotte Mosman of Carroll,
Carol and Marv Munyon of Rockton, Ill. and Dale and Sheryl Linn of Port
Charlotte, Fla.; a daughter-in-law, Pat Linn of Port Charlotte, Fla.;
grandchildren: Brian and Amy Boken; Blaine Boken and Jen, Julie Boken,
Christy and Rod Dennis, Sharon Vaughan and Ron Martin, Lonnie and Gina
Munyon, Faith Ambrose and Seth Linn; great-grandchildren: Ryan Dennis,
Emily Dennis James Dennis, Ashley and Nate Mohr, Paige Boken, Jesse
Boken, Dylan Boken, Kylie Boken, Heather Bonczyk, Whitney Adams, Kaylie
Munyon and Rebecca Munyon; great-great-grandchildren: Tyler Ambrose,
Taylor Mohr, Taylor Bonczyk, Brandon Meinke and Anthony Mavroganis; and
sisters-in-law: Hazel Potter of Mitchellville and Bernice Potter of Manning.
Mrs. Linn was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Donald
Lyle Linn; sons-in-law: Gordon Boken and Arden Mosman; her parents; and
brothers and sisters: Harold and Gladys Potter, Irene and Earl Hick,
Orville Potter, Edna Whitmore, Gilbert Potter and an infant sister, Inez Potter.(
(Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Monday, October 19, 2009)
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