Frances Saltzman

Frances Jeanette Sheumaker Saltzman, 98, of Mount Ayr died Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, at Clearview Home in Mount Ayr.

Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, at United Methodist Church in Mount Ayr. Visitation with family present will be from 9 to 11 a.m. at the church prior to the service. Watson-Armstrong Funeral Home, 205 W. Monroe St., is in charge of arrangements. Memorials are to be established. Online condolences may be left at www.watsonarmstrongfh.com.

Frances, daughter of Roy and Goldia Sheumaker, was born July 26, 1917, near Malta, Montana. The family remained in Montana for 10 years, and then moved to the Redding area where she attended school through eighth grade. She then attended Mount Ayr High School and graduated in 1936.

After high school, she taught in a one-room rural school in Poe Township. While teaching there, she lived with Lial and Dorothy Saltzman where she met Lial’s brother, Richard, who was to become her husband. During World War II, she attended Iowa Teachers College in Cedar Falls, and then taught primary school for three years in Arispe.

On May 2, 1945, Frances married Richard Saltzman after he returned from the war. Frances and Richard lived on his Uncle Frank Saltzman’s farm for the first years of their marriage. They then bought and moved to the farm southeast of Mount Ayr where they remained until 1993, when they moved to Mount Ayr. Frances was a homemaker and helped with farm chores.

Frances was active in Mount Ayr Methodist Church and various clubs and was a 4-H leader. She also worked for Clearview Homes as an aide and in the activities department. After Richard’s death, she returned to Clearview as a resident where she remained until her death.

Frances is survived by her daughters, Diane Saltzman and Patty Herrington; son-in-law Philip Herrington; grandsons, Neil (Ashley) Aldrich, Benjamin (Carla) Aldrich, Blake Herrington and Grant Herrington; great-grandchildren Oliver, Abigail, Eleanor, Logan, Emmah and Evrett Aldrich; sister Margaret Wood; brother John (Sharon) Sheumaker; sisters-in-law, LaVon Sheumaker and Nina Saltzman; numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

Frances was proceeded in death by her husband Richard; her parents; brothers, Roy (Mary) Sheumaker, Clinton Sheumaker and Thomas Sheumaker; sisters, Bernice (Barton) Abarr, Eunice (Gerald) Jones, Elizabeth (Vernon) Thomas and Julia (Floyd) Klang; brothers-in-law, Lloyd Wood, Lial (Dorothy) Saltzman and Robert Saltzman and sister-in-law Blondina (Chriss) Saltzman.