Obituary for DOROTHY REBECCA GRANT
Dorothy Rebecca Grant died on Wednesday, January 7, 2004 at Iowa Lutheran Hospital from complications of a stroke. Services will be 2 p.m. Monday, January 12, at Hamilton''s Near Highland Memory Gardens Funeral Home, officiated by family friend, Pastor David Stewart. Visitation will be held at 1 p.m. prior to services. Burial will be at Highland Memory Gardens Cemetery, across the street from the funeral home at Second Avenue and NW 60th Ave.
Dorothy was born in Sarah and Otto Tuttle in Somerville, MO on February 11, 1916 and moved with her family to the Des Moines area as a young child.
She graduated from Earlham High School with a Normal School Teacher''s Degree in 1934 and later moved to Des Moines. She married a childhood sweetheart, Harry Walter Grant in 1940.
Dorothy Grant had many hobbies throughout her life. She was a long-time member and many times officer in the Highland Park Garden Club, where she was also a lifetime garden show judge. She volunteered at the Botanical Center from its opening in 1979 through the spring of 2003. She and her husband, Harry owned an antique shop and spent many happy times going to auctions to buy things for their shop. She traveled to China and Mexico and even into her 80s, often hosted exchange students from those countries. She was also a long-time member of the IE Chapter of PEO.
Survivors include a son, Gary Grant and a daughter, Marilynn Wadden and her husband, Jerry. She is also survived by grandchildren, Bill Wadden; Leigh Wadden; Harry Matthew Grant; Madeline and Brian and their son, Cody; Rachel Wonders and Justin and their children, Austin, Marissa and Trevor; and Rebecca Grant and Rob. Also surviving are two sisters, Thelma Muller and Maxine Brodie; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harry Grant; a brother, Howard Tuttle; a sister, Eleanor Peterson; and a grandbaby, Julie Michelle Wadden.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army, Highland Park Garden Club or the Des Moines Botanical Center.
Dorothy was born in Sarah and Otto Tuttle in Somerville, MO on February 11, 1916 and moved with her family to the Des Moines area as a young child.
She graduated from Earlham High School with a Normal School Teacher''s Degree in 1934 and later moved to Des Moines. She married a childhood sweetheart, Harry Walter Grant in 1940.
Dorothy Grant had many hobbies throughout her life. She was a long-time member and many times officer in the Highland Park Garden Club, where she was also a lifetime garden show judge. She volunteered at the Botanical Center from its opening in 1979 through the spring of 2003. She and her husband, Harry owned an antique shop and spent many happy times going to auctions to buy things for their shop. She traveled to China and Mexico and even into her 80s, often hosted exchange students from those countries. She was also a long-time member of the IE Chapter of PEO.
Survivors include a son, Gary Grant and a daughter, Marilynn Wadden and her husband, Jerry. She is also survived by grandchildren, Bill Wadden; Leigh Wadden; Harry Matthew Grant; Madeline and Brian and their son, Cody; Rachel Wonders and Justin and their children, Austin, Marissa and Trevor; and Rebecca Grant and Rob. Also surviving are two sisters, Thelma Muller and Maxine Brodie; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harry Grant; a brother, Howard Tuttle; a sister, Eleanor Peterson; and a grandbaby, Julie Michelle Wadden.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Salvation Army, Highland Park Garden Club or the Des Moines Botanical Center.