Dorothy A. Iftner, age 101, passed from this earth Thursday, December 24, 2020. She was born on September 15,1919 in Plainville, Illinois to Charles Loyal ‘Hogan’ and Mable Inman Anderson, the second oldest of five children. The family relocated to Barry where Dorothy graduated from Barry High School in 1927. After high school she worked in various business offices in the surrounding area and California.
Then she went to a dance and met the love of her life, Jacob Iftner, and she became a “farmer's wife”. In 1961 Jake was killed in a tragic farming accident and her whole world changed. She and her two kids ages 11 and 12 took over working and running the farm that Dad so loved and is still owned and operated today by Jacob Jr.
Before having to go to work outside of the home, she was active in scouting, 4-H, many school activities and babysat the neighbors kids. Through the years she held several jobs, baking pies at the Cardinal Inn, Brown Shoe, the Pike County Health Department as a day worker for 'old people', she was 75 herself and received many accolades from selling Avon. When she wasn't working she was hunting mushrooms, gathering blackberries, canning and freezing foods from the garden, raising plants of all kinds, going to garage sales, collecting foxes and dancing. Oh how she loved to dance! She was the subject of several articles in area newspapers. She was a member of the Pittsfield Garden Club, Pike County Home Extension and the Aransas Pass Women of the Moose. Dorothy was a dynamic woman, and inspiration, and loved by all that knew her.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband Jacob, her siblings, Roy, Esther, Ruth and Loyal Merledean, her parents, all of her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law from the Iftner family, some nieces and nephews, and a few great nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her children Jacob A. Jr., wife Carol of Arenzville, and Elizabeth (Betty Jo) Iftner-Schlieper of Aransas Pass, Texas and several nieces and nephews.
No services will be held and cremation rites have been accorded. Memorials are suggested to be made to Irick Sherer Reunion. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.nieburfh.com. Niebur Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Charitable donations may be made in Dorothy's memory to the following organization:
Irick Sherer Reunion
Then she went to a dance and met the love of her life, Jacob Iftner, and she became a “farmer's wife”. In 1961 Jake was killed in a tragic farming accident and her whole world changed. She and her two kids ages 11 and 12 took over working and running the farm that Dad so loved and is still owned and operated today by Jacob Jr.
Before having to go to work outside of the home, she was active in scouting, 4-H, many school activities and babysat the neighbors kids. Through the years she held several jobs, baking pies at the Cardinal Inn, Brown Shoe, the Pike County Health Department as a day worker for 'old people', she was 75 herself and received many accolades from selling Avon. When she wasn't working she was hunting mushrooms, gathering blackberries, canning and freezing foods from the garden, raising plants of all kinds, going to garage sales, collecting foxes and dancing. Oh how she loved to dance! She was the subject of several articles in area newspapers. She was a member of the Pittsfield Garden Club, Pike County Home Extension and the Aransas Pass Women of the Moose. Dorothy was a dynamic woman, and inspiration, and loved by all that knew her.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband Jacob, her siblings, Roy, Esther, Ruth and Loyal Merledean, her parents, all of her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law from the Iftner family, some nieces and nephews, and a few great nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her children Jacob A. Jr., wife Carol of Arenzville, and Elizabeth (Betty Jo) Iftner-Schlieper of Aransas Pass, Texas and several nieces and nephews.
No services will be held and cremation rites have been accorded. Memorials are suggested to be made to Irick Sherer Reunion. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.nieburfh.com. Niebur Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Charitable donations may be made in Dorothy's memory to the following organization:
Irick Sherer Reunion
Dorothy A. Iftner, age 101, passed from this earth Thursday, December 24, 2020. She was born on September 15,1919 in Plainville, Illinois to Charles Loyal ‘Hogan’ and Mable Inman Anderson, the second oldest of five children. The family relocated to Barry where Dorothy graduated from Barry High School in 1927. After high school she worked in various business offices in the surrounding area and California.
Then she went to a dance and met the love of her life, Jacob Iftner, and she became a “farmer's wife”. In 1961 Jake was killed in a tragic farming accident and her whole world changed. She and her two kids ages 11 and 12 took over working and running the farm that Dad so loved and is still owned and operated today by Jacob Jr.
Before having to go to work outside of the home, she was active in scouting, 4-H, many school activities and babysat the neighbors kids. Through the years she held several jobs, baking pies at the Cardinal Inn, Brown Shoe, the Pike County Health Department as a day worker for 'old people', she was 75 herself and received many accolades from selling Avon. When she wasn't working she was hunting mushrooms, gathering blackberries, canning and freezing foods from the garden, raising plants of all kinds, going to garage sales, collecting foxes and dancing. Oh how she loved to dance! She was the subject of several articles in area newspapers. She was a member of the Pittsfield Garden Club, Pike County Home Extension and the Aransas Pass Women of the Moose. Dorothy was a dynamic woman, and inspiration, and loved by all that knew her.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband Jacob, her siblings, Roy, Esther, Ruth and Loyal Merledean, her parents, all of her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law from the Iftner family, some nieces and nephews, and a few great nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her children Jacob A. Jr., wife Carol of Arenzville, and Elizabeth (Betty Jo) Iftner-Schlieper of Aransas Pass, Texas and several nieces and nephews.
No services will be held and cremation rites have been accorded. Memorials are suggested to be made to Irick Sherer Reunion. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.nieburfh.com. Niebur Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Charitable donations may be made in Dorothy's memory to the following organization:
Irick Sherer Reunion
Then she went to a dance and met the love of her life, Jacob Iftner, and she became a “farmer's wife”. In 1961 Jake was killed in a tragic farming accident and her whole world changed. She and her two kids ages 11 and 12 took over working and running the farm that Dad so loved and is still owned and operated today by Jacob Jr.
Before having to go to work outside of the home, she was active in scouting, 4-H, many school activities and babysat the neighbors kids. Through the years she held several jobs, baking pies at the Cardinal Inn, Brown Shoe, the Pike County Health Department as a day worker for 'old people', she was 75 herself and received many accolades from selling Avon. When she wasn't working she was hunting mushrooms, gathering blackberries, canning and freezing foods from the garden, raising plants of all kinds, going to garage sales, collecting foxes and dancing. Oh how she loved to dance! She was the subject of several articles in area newspapers. She was a member of the Pittsfield Garden Club, Pike County Home Extension and the Aransas Pass Women of the Moose. Dorothy was a dynamic woman, and inspiration, and loved by all that knew her.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband Jacob, her siblings, Roy, Esther, Ruth and Loyal Merledean, her parents, all of her brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law from the Iftner family, some nieces and nephews, and a few great nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her children Jacob A. Jr., wife Carol of Arenzville, and Elizabeth (Betty Jo) Iftner-Schlieper of Aransas Pass, Texas and several nieces and nephews.
No services will be held and cremation rites have been accorded. Memorials are suggested to be made to Irick Sherer Reunion. Online condolences may be left to the family at www.nieburfh.com. Niebur Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
Charitable donations may be made in Dorothy's memory to the following organization:
Irick Sherer Reunion
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