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Calli Rose Keltner
Calli Rose Keltner
Anamosa
Calli Rose Keltner, age 86, of Anamosa passed away peacefully at home on August 6, 2025, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer’s.
Funeral services will be held 11 am Monday, August 11, 2025, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, with interment in the Riverside Cemetery, Anamosa. Family will greet friends from 10 am to the time of service. Pastor Holly Knouse will officiate at the services. Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.
Surviving are her six children, Myra (Steve) Powell, Anamosa, Holly Cooley, Des Moines, Laurie (Bill) Sperfslage, Moni Young, Brien (Lisa) Keltner, Anamosa and Amy Barney of Marion; one brother-in-law Elbridge Keith, 16 grandchildren, 27 great-grandchildren, 3 great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Jim, brother Earl Schuchman, sisters Betty Fayram and Helen Gray and Sister-in-law Joann Keith.
Calli Rose Schuchman was born May 9, 1939, in Anamosa, Iowa to George ‘Curly’ and Maude (Rigby) Schuchman. She spent her childhood and school years traveling around the United States with her parents. She moved back to Iowa in 1970, and settled on an acreage near Central Park, a home she would cherish with her husband and children for over 55 years. She married James Keltner at the John and Rose Bailey home in Anamosa on January 3, 1971. She loved horses and all things nature, birds, gardening, flowers, trees and was a skilled seamstress and painter, always dabbling in a new project of some sort.
The family would like to express their immense gratitude to the UnityPoint Hospice staff who cared so lovingly for our Mom, and to the Guardian Angels Hospice Program who arranged for Mom to have a “make-a-wish” visit by Mary, Kris and Sherri and horses Odie, Weston, and Willa, a wonderful and lasting final memory for Mom and our family.
Memorials can be made to the Guardian Angels Hospice Program at UnityPoint Hospital in Anamosa or the Animal Welfare Friends in Monticello.
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