Eva 'Ruth' Toft
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Eva 'Ruth' Toft
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Posted: 31 Oct 2009 1:41PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
DURANT, Iowa -- Eva 'Ruth' Toft, 84, Durant, died Friday, April 9, 2004, at Manor Care Nursing Home, Davenport.
Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, at Bentley Funeral Home, Durant. The Rev. Nancy Hoelter will officiate. Musical selections will be provided by organist, Kathy Luethye and vocalist, Henry Bentley. Casket bearers are Kimberly Fee, Kevin Toft, Dianne Avery, Larry Schlapkohl, Mike Klaessy and Elizabeth Smith. Burial will be at the Durant Cemetery, Durant.
Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Durant Library.
Mrs. Toft was born Dec. 19, 1919, in Tama, the daughter of Ralph and Eva Martin Avery. She married Evald V. Toft June 10, 1940, in Tama. He preceded her in death May 13, 1980.
She graduated from Tama High School in 1936. She then attended State College of Iowa, now the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, where she earned a teaching degree.
Prior to marriage and children, she taught school in Princeton and later resumed her full-time teaching career in 1964 at the Durant Community Schools. She retired from her second grade classroom there in 1985. In addition to being a homemaker and teacher, she also served as a bookkeeper for the Durant Body Shop, which she and her husband owned and operated.
She was a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Durant, the Durant Women's Club, the Durant Education Association, The Iowa State Education Association, The National Education Association, and served on the board of the Durant Library. She was also a member of AARP and the Quad City Times Plus 60 Club.
She was an avid reader with additional interests in gardening, crafts and traveling. Her greatest love, however, was teaching and her students. She proudly kept up with their accomplishments and achievements throughout their teen and adult lives.
Survivors include a son, Brian Toft and wife Darlene of Davenport; four daughters, Sharon Heesch and husband David of Davenport, Barbara Klaessy and husband Don of Durant, Judith Dell and husband Terry of Clinton and Debra Toft of Palatine, Ill.; a brother, Rex Avery of Tama; a stepbrother, Wayne Reed of Springfield, Mo.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother, Raymond Avery in infancy; and her stepmother, Louise Reed Avery
Services are 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 13, at Bentley Funeral Home, Durant. The Rev. Nancy Hoelter will officiate. Musical selections will be provided by organist, Kathy Luethye and vocalist, Henry Bentley. Casket bearers are Kimberly Fee, Kevin Toft, Dianne Avery, Larry Schlapkohl, Mike Klaessy and Elizabeth Smith. Burial will be at the Durant Cemetery, Durant.
Visitation is 5-7 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Durant Library.
Mrs. Toft was born Dec. 19, 1919, in Tama, the daughter of Ralph and Eva Martin Avery. She married Evald V. Toft June 10, 1940, in Tama. He preceded her in death May 13, 1980.
She graduated from Tama High School in 1936. She then attended State College of Iowa, now the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls, where she earned a teaching degree.
Prior to marriage and children, she taught school in Princeton and later resumed her full-time teaching career in 1964 at the Durant Community Schools. She retired from her second grade classroom there in 1985. In addition to being a homemaker and teacher, she also served as a bookkeeper for the Durant Body Shop, which she and her husband owned and operated.
She was a member of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Durant, the Durant Women's Club, the Durant Education Association, The Iowa State Education Association, The National Education Association, and served on the board of the Durant Library. She was also a member of AARP and the Quad City Times Plus 60 Club.
She was an avid reader with additional interests in gardening, crafts and traveling. Her greatest love, however, was teaching and her students. She proudly kept up with their accomplishments and achievements throughout their teen and adult lives.
Survivors include a son, Brian Toft and wife Darlene of Davenport; four daughters, Sharon Heesch and husband David of Davenport, Barbara Klaessy and husband Don of Durant, Judith Dell and husband Terry of Clinton and Debra Toft of Palatine, Ill.; a brother, Rex Avery of Tama; a stepbrother, Wayne Reed of Springfield, Mo.; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother, Raymond Avery in infancy; and her stepmother, Louise Reed Avery