Kind-hearted and giving

Shirley H. Misfeldt, 85, of Waterloo, died Saturday, Nov. 12, 2011, at Golden Living Valhaven in Valley.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Waterloo United Methodist Church. Interment will be in the Prospect Hill Cemetery.

Visitation will be from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, at Reichmuth Funeral Home in Elkhorn, with the family receiving friends from 4 to 7 p.m.

Shirley Helen Kallenbach was born on Sept. 1, 1926, in Davenport, Iowa, to Raymond and Lillian (Sass) Kallenbach. She grew up in Davenport where she attended grade school and graduated from Davenport High School in 1943.

She was baptized and confirmed at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Davenport.

In her younger years, she worked as a bookkeeper at Schlegel's Drug Store in Davenport.

She married Vernon Peekenschneider in 1958 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Davenport. The couple farmed near Dixon and Clarence, Iowa, before her husband's death in 1967. She then married Willard Misfeldt in 1969 at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Valley. The Misfeldts made their home in Waterloo.

Mrs. Misfeldt enjoyed TV, traveling and church activities. She wrote a column for the Douglas County Gazette and was active in Women's Club and Pinochle Club. She was kind-hearted, giving and helpful.

She is survived by her sister, Peggy Harper of Valley and sister-in-law, Elda Misfeldt of Blair; nieces and nephews: Marlene Mohr, Mike Evans and Ida, Scot Harper and Teri, Bill Johnston and Karen, Linda Johnston, Randy Johnston and Georgia, Carolyn Mellonson and Bill, Kathy Buker and Jeff, Merri Misfeldt, Pat Rogers and Lane, Marty Misfeldt and Kathleen, Eileen Hayan, Gene Peekenschneider; 14 great-nieces and-nephews; nine great-great-nieces and -nephews; and special friends Bill and Fern Davis.

She was preceded in death by her husbands and a sister, Evelyn.

Memorials are suggested to the Waterloo United Methodist Church or the Waterloo Rescue Squad.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska ~~~

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