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Pearl Morehead
PEARL MOREHEAD
Tipton
Pearl Marie Morehead, 94, of Tipton, formerly of Lebanon, S.D., died Saturday, July 12, 2014, in the
Cedar Manor Nursing Home, Tipton, Iowa. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 15, at First United Church of Christ, Tipton, with the Rev. David Lorenzen officiating. Visitation will be held one hour before the start of the service. Graveside services and burial will be conducted Thursday, July 17, at the Lebanon Cemetery, Lebanon, S.D. Kesling Funeral Home, Mobridge, S.D.,
will be in charge of graveside services.
Online condolences may be shared at www.fry
funeralhome.com.
Memorials may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or the Potter County Historical Group.
Pearl was born June 11, 1920, in New Salem, N.D., and was raised in the home of August and Mary Grube Schedel. At an early age, she moved with her family to Wisconsin, and then back to where she finished her school years, graduating from high school in 1938. After attending Northern State College one year, Pearl taught in the rural schools three years and then worked in the county auditor's office.
On Dec, 7, 1942, she married Elmer Morehead and they lived on the farm 52 years. Their two daughters are Carolyn Tecklenburg, Battle Ground, Wash., and Sandra Mente, Tipton.
Pearl was a member of the Medicine Rock Senior Citizens Center and served on the board of directors acting as secretary three years. She enjoyed gardening, crocheting, travel, playing clarinet and ukulele, singing, being a part of a country ladies
Bible study and being active in the Potter County Historical Society.
Pearl is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Tecklenburg and husband Robert, of Battle Ground, Wash., and Sandra Mente and husband Mark, of Tipton; three grandsons, Troy (Denise) Mente, Todd (Amy) Mente and Terry (Kim) Mente, all of Tipton; and eight great-grandchildren, Daulton, Ashley, Dylan, Austin, Dawson, Alyssa, Addison and Avery.
She was preceded in death by her husband,
Elmer on April 9, 2005; two brothers, Hervey and
Howard Schedel; and her sister, Helen.
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