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Edna Faltinson
EDNA FALTINSON
Conroy
Edna Castek Faltinson died Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015, at Briarwood Healthcare Center, Iowa City, from a brief illness and struggle with dementia.
Edna was born Jan. 26, 1921, on the Castek family
farm near Swisher, the daughter of Aldrich B. and Sylvia E. (Cuhel) Castek. She graduated from the Swisher Consolidated Schools and Roosevelt High School in Cedar Rapids and received a secretarial degree from Cedar Rapids Business College. She worked at Russell's Guides and Collins Radio before moving to Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Md., during World War II. She married Frederick A. Faltinson on Nov. 26, 1950, at First Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids. The couple lived many years on their farm north of Conroy until moving to The Methwick Community in 1992.
She is survived by her sister-in-law, Mary Castek of Kansas City, Mo.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Fred, who died Oct 24, 2002; her parents; her brother, Wallace Castek of Swisher; and her sister-in-law, Julia Anderson of Ames.
Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, at First Lutheran Church, north of Conroy, with burial at First Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation will be at the church from 9:30 to 11 a.m. preceding the funeral service. Pastor Donald Keiser Dovre will officiate. Powell Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Williamsburg, is providing arrangements.
Memorials may be designated for First Lutheran Church, Conroy, or Iowa County 4-H Foundation.
Messages and tributes may be left at www.powell funeralhomes.com.
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