Arlene Wear

ARLENE WEAR

Center Point

Arlene Lois Wilhelmi Wear, 87, of Center Point, died surrounded by loved ones following complications of pneumonia on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2014, at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 2, at Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Center Point, by Pastor Sam Dronebarger. The family will greet friends from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 1, at the funeral home. Private burial will be at a later date.

Survivors include her children, Garry (Kathy) Wilhelmi, Kathy (Sam) Dronebarger, David (Rhonda) Wilhelmi, Patti (Dean) Evans and Barbara (Tom) Hart; stepchildren, Linda Wear and Larry (Susan) Wear; grandchildren, Jennifer, Glenn, Chuck, Alex, Emily, Megan, Elliot, Molly, Rob and Davis; stepgrandchildren, Nathan, Seth and Lindsay; 20 great-grandchildren; siblings, Dolores Rawson, David (Fran) Uthoff, Marjorie Beatty, Bertha Rhinehart and Virginia Roths; brother-in-law, Duane Bliss; and sisters-in-law, Eleanor Uthoff and Arlene Andrew.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husbands, Glenn and Kenneth; and siblings, Dorothy Wittenburg, Walter Uthoff and Maxine Bliss.

Arlene was born May 2, 1927, the daughter of Henry and Florence (Vette) Uthoff, in Van Horne, Iowa. On Aug. 14, 1948, she married Glenn Wilhelmi at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church in Atkins. He died in a plane crash in 1962. Arlene married Kenneth Wear on Jan. 16, 1967, at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He passed in 2000.

Arlene was a homemaker and also worked at the Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton. She enjoyed playing granny basketball, gardening, knitting, crafts, quilting, baking and dancing. Arlene was a member of the Alert Homemakers Club and Betty's Grove Club. She attended Lafayette Christian Church and was strengthened by her faith through adversity and lived her faith every day.

Memorials may be made to Camp Courageous or Lafayette Christian Church in memory of Arlene.

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