Iva Wendt, a 97-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.
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Iva Wendt, a 97-year-old resident of Princeton, died on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2002 at the Sunnyview Nursing Home in Trenton.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2002 at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Princeton. Rev. Gary Watkins will officiate. Burial will be in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Laredo.
An open visitation and viewing will begin at 8 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 18, 2002 at the funeral home. There is no scheduled family visitation.
Mrs. Wendt was born in Mercer County on April 29, 1904, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Belle ?Molly? Stokesberry Stewart. She was a 1923 graduate of Princeton High School and later attended pharmacy school, becoming a registered pharmacist. She and her husband, Harry Beechner, owned and operated Beechner?s Drug Store in Princeton for many years. She was a charter member of Princeton?s Business and Professional Women?s Club, was a 50-plus-year member of the Order of Eastern Star, was a member of the Cornelia Beekman Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution and was a member of the Princeton Christian Church.
Mrs. Wendt was married on Dec. 3, 1985 to Henry Eckley Wendt, who survives of the home at Princeton.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Wendt is survived by two step-daughters, Audrey Anderson and her husband, Richard, of Lemons, and Donna Houston and her husband, Jim, of Bloomfield, IA; three step-sons, Robert Wendt of Champaign, IL, Andrew Wendt and his wife, Kathy, of Cainsville and Frank Wendt and his wife, Nancy, of Fairway, KS; several step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren; and several other relatives.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, Henry W. Beechner, and her second husband, Tobe Jaynes.