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Cheryl Ann (Pardee) Huyck
CHERYL ANN (PARDEE) HUYCK
Iowa City
Cheryl Ann (Pardee) Huyck, 68, of Iowa City, died on Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, at her home.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Iowa City. (Sunday parking ordinance will be in effect for streets near the church.) Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Gay & Ciha Funeral and Cremation Service.
Cheryl was born Nov. 16, 1950, in Carroll, Iowa. She grew up in Audubon, Iowa, and graduated from Audubon High School in 1969. She attended the University of Iowa, majoring in political science, and graduated in December of 1972. She was a longtime employee of the University of Iowa's Main Library, where she worked in the Interlibrary Loan Department for almost 40 years, before retiring in 2012. Cheryl was a voracious reader and knitter, and a beloved wife, sister, mother and grandmother.
She is survived by her husband of nearly 40 years, Peter Huyck, and their children, Anne (Leslie) Markle of St. Louis, Mo., Mary (Neil) Huyck Mulka of Henan, China, and Charlie (Melisa) Huyck of Long Beach, Calif. She also is survived by her beloved grandchildren, Mitchel, Amelia, Hazel and Felix; her sister, Mary Lee Jensen; her cousins, nieces and nephews; and many friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Wayne and Laura Pardee.
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