Jean Funk

JEAN FUNK

Iowa City

Jean Ann Kuehl Funk, beloved wife and mother, died March 28, 2014, at Oaknoll Health Center after a long Illness. She was 88 years old.

A memorial gathering will be 2 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in the Recreation Room at Oaknoll Retirement Center in Iowa City.

Gifts and remembrances can be made to the American Heart Association or to Alzheimer's Research in Jean's memory.

Online condolences may be sent for her family through the Web at www.gayandciha.com.

The daughter of Frank and Eva Kuehl of Waukee, Iowa, Jean Funk was born in 1926 and grew up on a farm west of Des Moines. She attended the University of Iowa College of Nursing, where she met the handsome young cardiology resident, Dr. David C. Funk. The couple were married in 1947 and made their home in Iowa City, where David was a physician at the University of Iowa Medical Center and the veterans hospital.

Jean loved books and when her children were grown, she worked at the West High School library and was a volunteer librarian for St. Andrew Presbyterian Church and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics.

She was an avid gardener and led an active life, canoeing, camping and cross-country skiing and, with her husband, swam on the University of Iowa Masters Swim Team, winning gold medals in the Iowa Senior Olympics.

Jean was preceded in death by her husband.

She is survived by her sister, Miriam Arneson of Minneapolis; her sons, David B. Funk of Iowa City and Robert J. Funk of Austin, Texas; daughters, Nancy L. Funk of Berkeley, Calif., and Sarah E. Funk of Seattle, Wash.; six grandchildren and one great-grandson.