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Linda Eberhart
LINDA JOYCE EBERHART
Montour
Linda Joyce Eberhart, 75, of Montour, passed away Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, at Westbrook Acres Care Center in Gladbrook. A funeral service will be held Friday, Jan. 20, at 10:30 a.m. at Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home in Tama, with Pastor Brian Oliver officiating. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Cemetery, Toledo. Visitation will be held Thursday, Jan. 19, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home in Tama.
Linda was born July 15, 1941, in Buckeye, Iowa, the daughter of Glen and Blanche (Crosser) Sullivan.
She graduated from Tama High School in 1959.
On Oct. 21, 1960, she was united in marriage to Norman Eberhart in Toledo, Iowa. Linda was a playground supervisor at the Montour school. She also worked at Rube's Steakhouse in Montour, Certainteed Corp. in Grinnell, and was a Walmart greeter. Linda attended Living Faith United Methodist Church in Montour. She liked to go to the casino and enjoyed watching movies, listening to music and playing cards.
Survivors include two sons, Bill (Susan) Eberhart of Montour and Roger (Paula) Eberhart of Montour; four grandchildren, Krystal (Nick Peshel), Bryce, Kayla and Paige Eberhart; a stepgranddaughter, Jayme Wilkening of Marshalltown; two great-grandchildren, Naomi and Nohlen Peshel; a stepgreat-granddaughter, Kyla Wilkening; one sister, Deloris (Arnold) Walton of Texas; and two nieces, Becky (Jim) Taft and Debbie (Mark) Sutherland.
Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, Norman, on May 16, 2011; one son, Ronald, in infancy; and one niece, Susie Pearson.
A memorial fund has been established.
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