Barrigar, Rachel D.

Rachel D. Barrigar, 87, of the Hiawatha Care Center, died peacefully there on Oct. 1, 2009, surrounded by her loving family. Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Cedar Memorial Park Chapel of Memories. The Rev. Dr. Kay Slocum of First Lutheran Church will officiate. Entombment: Cedar Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Cedar Memorial Park Funeral Home.

Survivors include her son, Mike (Linda) Barrigar of Cedar Rapids; daughter. Karen (Derald) Dosland of Clinton; brother, Kenneth (Joann) Sheppard of Manchester; four grandchildren, Lanie Dosland and Michael Dosland of Alexandria, Va., Joshua Barrigar of Waterloo and Britt Barrigar of Dallas; two stepgrandchildren, Danielle Gavin of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Derek (Rachel) Albright of Olathe, Kan.; and three stepgreat-grandchildren, Gabrielle and Reed Gavin and Allie Albright.

She was preceded in death by her husband; and her sister, Virginia Hosford.

Rachel was born and grew up on a farm near Ryan, Iowa. She went to a country school and graduated from Monticello High School in 1939. She went on to receive her teaching certificate and taught for three years in Delaware County. She renewed her teaching certificate in Cedar Falls but instead of returning to teaching she went to work at Rockwell-Collins, where she met her husband, Robert. Rachel and Robert were married on March 23, 1946, in Albert Lea, Minn.

Rachel was a substitute teacher in the Cedar Rapids school district for 18 years. She was a member of the Mercy Woman's Auxiliary and First Lutheran Church. Her greatest pleasures were spending time with her family and friends and gardening in her backyard on Greene Avenue.

In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.