May 22, 2025
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Linda K. Jennings

Creston

By Powers Funeral Home
Linda Jennings, 81, of Creston, died Saturday, May 17, 2025, at her daughter’s home near Creston.

Linda Jennings, 81, of Creston, died Saturday, May 17, 2025, at her daughter’s home near Creston. (Contributed )

Linda Jennings, 81, of Creston, died Saturday, May 17, 2025, at her daughter’s home near Creston. A Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, May 23, at the Powers Funeral Home in Creston. Services will be livestreamed with the link available at www.powersfh.com under the obituary in the events section. Pastor Jodi Rushing will officiate. The private family burial will be in the Barney Cemetery, northeast of Lorimor. Open visitation will be from 12 - 2 p.m. Friday at Powers Funeral Home in Creston.

Memorials can be left for the Afton Volunteer Fire Department. Online condolences can be left at www.powersfh.com.

Linda Kay (Monagon) Jennings was born Feb. 17, 1944, the daughter of Marvin H. Monagon and Jeanne A. (Fisher) Monagon, in Winterset. She was educated at the Orient-Macksburg Community Schools and graduated from there with the class of 1962.

Linda was united in marriage to Donald Edward Jennings on Feb. 25, 1967, in Grant City, Missouri. This marriage was blessed with a daughter, Melissa. The family lived in Lorimor and Creston. During that time, Linda worked at Gits and later at Wellman Dynamics. Linda retired from Wellman Dynamics in 2008 after 30-plus years of factory work.

Linda is a former member of the Holy Spirit Catholic Church. She enjoyed camping and was the luckiest at fishing, always out-fishing whomever she was with. Linda most enjoyed spending time with her family and going to her grandchildren’s and great-grandchildren’s activities.

Linda is survived by her daughter Melissa (Scott) Pettit of Creston; grandchildren: Tyler (Rheanna) Pettit of Creston, Tayler (Natalie) Pettit of Chicago, Illinois, and Logan (Scott) Pettit-Oderio of Des Moines; four great-grandchildren: Brady Benjamin, Bentley Scott, Myles Donald and Matthew Lowell; sister Lyla Monagon of Eugene, Oregon; a special niece Rorella (Ted) Baxter of Council Bluffs; special friends, Marsha Cheers of Afton and Connie Dahl of Orient, along with a host of extended relatives and a host of friends.

Linda was preceded in death by her parents; husband Don in 2021 and aunt Mary Ann Schroder in 2025.