Laura Calhoun

LAURA CALHOUN

Anamosa

Laura Grace (Chambers) Calhoun, 91, died Tuesday, July 11, 2017, at Anamosa Care Center following a brief illness.

Funeral services will be held at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, July 13, at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery, Knoxville. The Rev. Marty Schumacher will officiate at the service.

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

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the nature conservation group of your choice, an animal shelter or Bat Conservation International.

Surviving are her son, David of Davenport; a niece, Janice Stout of Roanoke, Va.; two nephews, Gary Kaylor of Roanoke and Jim Chambers of Hastings, Mich.; and several cousins.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Charles, in 1995; a sister, Mary Ellen Kaylar; two brothers, Arlen and Laurence Chambers; a sister-in-law, Marie Chambers; and a niece, Judith Chambers.

Laura Grace Chambers was born Nov. 24, 1925, in Knoxville, Iowa, the daughter of Robert Nelson and Nina Edythe Hartness. She attended Rising Star Country School and graduated from Knoxville High School. After graduation she went to Roanoke, Va., and worked five years as an office manager for an insurance company.

Laura returned to Knoxville and married Charles Calhoun on April 12, 1947. (He had been her brother's best friend while growing up.) After living in Chicago, the couple moved to Hastings, Mich., and then to Armstrong, Iowa. They settled in Anamosa in the summer of 1965. Laura began working at Cornell College as the office manager in student affairs and was secretary to the Dean of Students. She retired in 1993.

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