Iris LaVonne Iddings

Funeral services for Iris LaVonne Iddings will be held Thursday, April 1, 1993, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Mankato, Minnesota. Reverend Norman Heidorn will officiate the service with burial being held in the Manning City Cemetery, Manning, Iowa on Friday, April 2, 1993, at 1:00 p.m. If desired, memorials may be given to donor's choice.

Iris LaVonne Iddings, age 62, of Mankato, Minnesota died Monday morning, March 29, at Oaklawn Health Care Center, Mankato, Minnesota.

Mrs. Iddings was born August 9, 1930, to William and Lillian (Schade) Kuhl in Manning, Iowa. She attended the Manning public schools and graduated from high school in 1948 as an honor student. She was united in marriage to Leo Iddings on May 21, 1950, in Manning, Iowa. Their marriage was blessed with three children: Douglas, Judy and Robert.

Mr. Iddings died on November 17, 1957, five years after being seriously ill with polio. Iris and the children moved to Mankato on July 11, 1964. Since August of 1964, she had been employed by Art Petrie, both in the Guardian Life Insurance Agency and Petrie Development Corporation, where she was corporate secretary.

Mrs. Iddings was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church where she had served as organist, choir director, member of the choir, member and past president of the Evening Guild, and the Board of Public Relations. Iris had been a member of the Mankato Business and Professional Women's Club since 1970. She served in most of the club's offices locally, and as vice-chairman and secretary/treasurer of District V BPW.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband.

Mrs. Iddings is survived by her children: Douglas and wife, Sue, of Waconia, Minnesota; Judy Alexander and husband, Randy, of Mankato, Minnesota; and Robert and wife, Jane, of Mankato, Minnesota; seven grandchildren; sister Lorraine Gehlsen of Odgen, Iowa; brother-in-law, Charles Iddings, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; sister-in-law, Bernice (Mrs. Paul) Williamson of Clarinda, Iowa; and many beloved nieces and nephews.