Maxine Lehrman

MAXINE LEHRMAN

Stanwood

Maxine Ruth Lehrman, 90, died Monday, Sept. 15, 2014, at the Mechanicsville Nursing and Rehab Center. Services: 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 19, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Stanwood, with Pastor Duncan Sprague officiating. Burial: Stanwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Chapman Funeral Home, Clarence.

Survivors include her husband, Merle; daughter, Carole Anderson of Cedar Rapids; sons, Robert of Bettendorf and David (Eva Fried) of Tuscon, Ariz.; grandchildren, Tracy (Carl) Barton of Cedar Rapids, Kelly (Joanna) Anderson of Parker, Colo., Rhonda McDonald of Phoenix, Ariz., Stephanie (Sam) Roll of Tuscon, Ariz., Derek Lehrman of San Francisco, Calif, and Alix Lehrman of Tucson; great-grandchildren, Joshua, Grant and Nicholas Barton of Cedar Rapids, and Lucas and Jack Roll of Tucson; brother-in-law, Frederick (Marge) Lehrman; sister-in-law, Eloise (Lehrman) Wood; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; infant brother, Harvey; sisters, Dorothy Busch and Irene Sander; brothers-in-law, Louis and Erwin Lehrman; and granddaughter, Lisa Lynn Anderson.

Maxine was born Jan. 7, 1924, in Toronto, Iowa, to Harry and Merta (Mae) Erbs Andresen. She married Merle Lehrman on Oct. 18, 1942, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood. She graduated in 1941 from Mechanicsville High School and attended AIC in Davenport. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood and the American Legion Auxiliary.

Maxine worked as a secretary at various companies and assisted Merle at the gas station and on the farm. She was also an interviewer for the U.S. Census Bureau of Department of Labor and volunteered over 3,000 hours at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Camp Courageous of Iowa, St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Stanwood, the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society.

Please direct online condolences to www.chapmanfh.com.