Irma Caspers

IRMA CASPERS

Anamosa

Irma Jean Caspers, 85, died Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at the Anamosa Care Center following an extended illness. Funeral services will be 10:30 Saturday morning, March 29, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Anamosa, with interment in Prairie Hill Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 until 7 p.m. Friday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa. Pastor Katie Lowe Lancaster will officiate at the services.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.

Surviving are three children, Stephanie Pomeroy, Wayland, Dianna Caspers, Bloomington, Minn., and Douglas (Lynda) Caspers, Cedar Rapids; five grandchildren, Heather (Tom) Newell, Hope (Gary) Stevenson, Brett (Alicia) Caspers, Eric (Kelly) Caspers and Joel Caspers; seven great-grandchildren, Katelyn, Caleb, Cayden, Johanna, Hewitt, Everett and Natalie; three sisters, Marie Steensen, Pinehurst, N.C., Dorothy Zobel, Sarasota, Fla., and Jenny Pierce, Bellingham, Wash.; and three sisters-in-law, Dolly Caspers, Albuquerque, N.M., and Laura Ortgies and Irma Caspers, both of Anamosa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Henry in 1988; an infant son, Stephen; a brother, Robert Greene; and a sister, Alice State.

Irma Jean Pickett was born March 13, 1929, in Monticello, Iowa, the daughter of Lloyd and Lanie Webster-Greene Pickett. Irma Jean graduated from Monticello Community Schools with the class of 1946. She attended Iowa State Teachers College (UNI) and then taught in a rural school in Cass Township, Jones County, Iowa, for a year. Irma Jean then worked as an operator for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Monticello and Anamosa. Irma Jean Pickett and Henry Martin Caspers were married Feb. 19, 1949, in Monticello. The couple lived in Anamosa and Irma Jean worked at the Anamosa Journal and Eureka and the Monticello Express for several years.