OBITUARY: Alzina Mae (Adams) Sheldon, 1921-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - March 31, 2004] 
 


                         Alzina Mae Sheldon
                         
Funeral services for Alzina Mae Sheldon, age 82, of Osage, Iowa, were
held Friday, March 26, 2004 at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in
Osage. The Reverend Karen Nichols Dungan officiated. Interment was
in the Osage Cemetery.

Alzina died Monday, March 22, 2004 at the Osage Rehabilitation and
Health Care Center.

Alzina Sheldon was born April 20, 1921 at Stacyville, Iowa, the daughter
of Vernie and Emma (Miller) Adams. She attended Little Cedar schools.

Alzina was married to Walter W. Sheldon on Feb. 14, 1946 in Austin,
Minnesota. She worked at the Cedar Valley Produce and was employed
at Maple Manor as a certified nurse's aide from 1969 to 1993. Alzina
was baptized in the United Methodist Church of Osage.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Walter W. Sheldon
in 1994, one grandson and one great-granddaughter.

Her survivors include her two daughters Sharon Shaw and her husband
Howard of Osage, Jo Ann Squier and her husband Gene of Riceville,
three sons Walter "Bub" Sheldon and his wife Sharon of Osage, Allyn
Sheldon and his wife Darlene of Osage, Gary Sheldon and his wife
Vieta of Phillipsburg, Missouri, two sisters Irma Jeffries of Osage,
Frieda Naber of Mason City, Iowa, 19 grandchildren, 10 great-
grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews.



     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson