NAOMI PATTEN
Funeral services for Naomi
Patten, 89, of Aurelia, will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 20, 2011,
at the First Congregational Church in Aurelia, with Pastor Bruce Rapp
officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, rural
Aurelia. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2:00 P.M. till 7:00 P.M.,
with the family present from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M., at the First
Congregational Church. The Redig Funeral Home in Aurelia is in charge of
arrangements.
Naomi died Sunday, January 16, 2011 at the
Sunset Knoll Care & Rehab Center in Aurelia. She had been a resident
since October 22, 2005, and had received wonderful care from the Sunset
Knoll staff and Hospice of Buena Vista County.
Naomi Ann Jeckell was born March 21, 1921,
the daughter of Sidney and Nora (Jackson) Jeckell in Lamberton,
Minnesota. She graduated from the Sac City High School in 1939. She
attended Buena Vista College in Storm Lake for two years and received
her teaching certificate. She taught near Sac City in a one-room school
house for two years, and later as a substitute teacher in Aurelia during
the 1950’s and 60’s.
On July 27, 1942, Naomi was united in
marriage to Wilbur Thomas Patten at the Wee Kurk of the Heather in Las
Vegas, NV, while Wilbur was stationed with the Army in California. They
had two sons, William Thomas and Michael Sidney. After Wilbur was
discharged from the service they farmed near Larrabee, IA. Later they
farmed south of Aurelia until retiring in 1977. They moved into Aurelia
in 1978. Naomi worked at Sunset Knoll Retirement Home from 1978 to 1986.
Naomi was a member of the First Congregational Church in Aurelia. She
loved her family, her grandchildren, and animals. She enjoyed flowers,
playing cards, and raising chickens.
Preceding Naomi in death were her parents,
her husband Wilbur on March 13, 2005, her sisters Mildred Smith,
Marjorie Sommers and Gladys Girardin, her brothers Gordon Jeckell and
Raymond Jeckell, and four siblings in infancy, Lloyd, Lilis, Lois, and
Lowell.
Survivors include two sons, Michael and his
wife Sheryl Patten of Spencer, and William and his wife Rosalee Patten
of Clemons, IA, six grandchildren, Nicholas and his wife Kathi Patten,
Tyler Patten, Lee Patten, Alicia Patten, Brandon and his wife Corrien
Patten and Devin Patten, and four great-grandchildren, Mollee Patten,
Mark Patten, Adeline Patten and Charles Patten. Also surviving are one
sister, Fernetta Siebrecht of Schaller, two sisters-in-law, Marian
Coombs of Alta, and Sally Patten of Carroll, one brother-in-law, Robert
Patten of Ankeny, nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.
