ROBERTA MEINKING
Funeral services for Roberta
Meinking, 101, of Aurelia, will be 10:30 A.M. Monday, May 15, 2006, at
the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia. Burial will be in the
Oakland Cemetery in Peterson. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00 to
8:00, with the family being present from 2:00 to 5:00, at the Redig
Funeral Home in Aurelia.
Roberta died Friday, May 12,
2006, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee.
Roberta Esther Sitz was born
April 18, 1905, the daughter of Robert and Bertha (Breecher) Sitz on a
farm near Peterson. She graduated from the Peterson High School in
1923. She then attended Cedar Falls College for two years. On February
24, 1927 she married Walter Adolph Meinking in Spencer, Iowa. They
farmed nine miles north of Aurelia until they moved to a new home in
Aurelia in 1951. They were members of St. John’s Evangelical Church
south of Peterson until they moved to Aurelia when they became members
of the First United Methodist Church. They enjoyed dancing and did some
traveling.
Roberta was an 81-year member of
Eastern Star and a past Worthy Matron, a past president of PTA, past
president of Federated Women, past president of United Methodist Women,
was a 4H leader, and was a member of ACC. She taught Bridge, and loved
to play all types of card games, she also enjoyed doing handwork such as
embroidery, crochet, and needlepoint, and playing the piano. In March
of 2000 Roberta entered the Sunset Knoll Retirement Home in Aurelia.
Preceding Roberta in death were
her parents, her husband Walter on February 15, 1994, and her brother,
Melvin Sitz.
Survivors include two daughters, Jan and her husband Lowell Jones of
Alta, and Julia Meinking of Aurelia, three grandchildren, Jane and her
husband Joe Garman of Salina, KS, John Loder of Manhattan, NY, and Ann
Block of Niantic, CN, two step-grandchildren, Judy and her husband Bill
Kearney of Sparks, NV, and Connie Jones of Sioux City, three
great-grandchildren, Austin Block, Dr. Joey and her husband Adam Gaines,
and Jennifer and her husband Dr. Bryan Klepper, and four
great-great-grandchildren, Jack and Vivian Gaines and Will and Audrey
Klepper.
