Iona ("Granny") Wildt died peacefully with family members by her side on June 11, 2021 in Mount Jackson, Virginia, her home for the past eight years. She was 97 years old. Iona was born on August 21, 1923 to Oscar and Ethel (Miller) Tyring in Gibson County, Indiana.
She lived a very good and very long life, most of it in southern Indiana. She was a devoted wife to Walter J. Wildt for 68 years and a faithful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Granny loved her family, loved Jesus, loved people, loved to dance, and loved to laugh. For much of her life she was a homemaker, worked on the family farm, and she attended church faithfully throughout her whole life, mostly as a member of St. Matthews Church in Lynnville, Indiana. Granny was excellent at quilting and crochet, making countless quilts and shawls and giving them to people who'd be blessed by them, up until her last two months.
She is survived by her daughter Gail (Wildt) Scherer of Mount Jackson, Virginia and her son Gary Wildt and his wife Kathy of Lynnville, Indiana; grandchildren Trent Scherer and wife Melissa, Tara (Scherer) Haley and husband Bill, Craig Wildt and wife Sheri, and Carla (Wildt) Kissel and husband Tony; and eleven great-grandchildren: Zeke and Zara Scherer; Liam, Iona, Karis, and Maira Haley; Connor and Cory Wildt; and Ava, Alden, and Asher Kissel.
Iona was preceded in death by her husband Walter J. Wildt (died December 23, 2008), sisters Iola ("Babe") Block and Naomi Tyring, son-in-law Bill Scherer, and grandson Todd Scherer.
Funeral Service will be 1 p.m. (CDT) Saturday, June 19, 2021 at St. Matthew Church in Lynnville, IN. Visitation 11:00 a.m. until service time. She will be interred next to her husband at Park Lawn Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana. Published in Courier Press from Jun. 14, to Jun. 15, 2021.
She lived a very good and very long life, most of it in southern Indiana. She was a devoted wife to Walter J. Wildt for 68 years and a faithful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Granny loved her family, loved Jesus, loved people, loved to dance, and loved to laugh. For much of her life she was a homemaker, worked on the family farm, and she attended church faithfully throughout her whole life, mostly as a member of St. Matthews Church in Lynnville, Indiana. Granny was excellent at quilting and crochet, making countless quilts and shawls and giving them to people who'd be blessed by them, up until her last two months.
She is survived by her daughter Gail (Wildt) Scherer of Mount Jackson, Virginia and her son Gary Wildt and his wife Kathy of Lynnville, Indiana; grandchildren Trent Scherer and wife Melissa, Tara (Scherer) Haley and husband Bill, Craig Wildt and wife Sheri, and Carla (Wildt) Kissel and husband Tony; and eleven great-grandchildren: Zeke and Zara Scherer; Liam, Iona, Karis, and Maira Haley; Connor and Cory Wildt; and Ava, Alden, and Asher Kissel.
Iona was preceded in death by her husband Walter J. Wildt (died December 23, 2008), sisters Iola ("Babe") Block and Naomi Tyring, son-in-law Bill Scherer, and grandson Todd Scherer.
Funeral Service will be 1 p.m. (CDT) Saturday, June 19, 2021 at St. Matthew Church in Lynnville, IN. Visitation 11:00 a.m. until service time. She will be interred next to her husband at Park Lawn Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana. Published in Courier Press from Jun. 14, to Jun. 15, 2021.
Iona ("Granny") Wildt died peacefully with family members by her side on June 11, 2021 in Mount Jackson, Virginia, her home for the past eight years. She was 97 years old. Iona was born on August 21, 1923 to Oscar and Ethel (Miller) Tyring in Gibson County, Indiana.
She lived a very good and very long life, most of it in southern Indiana. She was a devoted wife to Walter J. Wildt for 68 years and a faithful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Granny loved her family, loved Jesus, loved people, loved to dance, and loved to laugh. For much of her life she was a homemaker, worked on the family farm, and she attended church faithfully throughout her whole life, mostly as a member of St. Matthews Church in Lynnville, Indiana. Granny was excellent at quilting and crochet, making countless quilts and shawls and giving them to people who'd be blessed by them, up until her last two months.
She is survived by her daughter Gail (Wildt) Scherer of Mount Jackson, Virginia and her son Gary Wildt and his wife Kathy of Lynnville, Indiana; grandchildren Trent Scherer and wife Melissa, Tara (Scherer) Haley and husband Bill, Craig Wildt and wife Sheri, and Carla (Wildt) Kissel and husband Tony; and eleven great-grandchildren: Zeke and Zara Scherer; Liam, Iona, Karis, and Maira Haley; Connor and Cory Wildt; and Ava, Alden, and Asher Kissel.
Iona was preceded in death by her husband Walter J. Wildt (died December 23, 2008), sisters Iola ("Babe") Block and Naomi Tyring, son-in-law Bill Scherer, and grandson Todd Scherer.
Funeral Service will be 1 p.m. (CDT) Saturday, June 19, 2021 at St. Matthew Church in Lynnville, IN. Visitation 11:00 a.m. until service time. She will be interred next to her husband at Park Lawn Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana. Published in Courier Press from Jun. 14, to Jun. 15, 2021.
She lived a very good and very long life, most of it in southern Indiana. She was a devoted wife to Walter J. Wildt for 68 years and a faithful mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend. Granny loved her family, loved Jesus, loved people, loved to dance, and loved to laugh. For much of her life she was a homemaker, worked on the family farm, and she attended church faithfully throughout her whole life, mostly as a member of St. Matthews Church in Lynnville, Indiana. Granny was excellent at quilting and crochet, making countless quilts and shawls and giving them to people who'd be blessed by them, up until her last two months.
She is survived by her daughter Gail (Wildt) Scherer of Mount Jackson, Virginia and her son Gary Wildt and his wife Kathy of Lynnville, Indiana; grandchildren Trent Scherer and wife Melissa, Tara (Scherer) Haley and husband Bill, Craig Wildt and wife Sheri, and Carla (Wildt) Kissel and husband Tony; and eleven great-grandchildren: Zeke and Zara Scherer; Liam, Iona, Karis, and Maira Haley; Connor and Cory Wildt; and Ava, Alden, and Asher Kissel.
Iona was preceded in death by her husband Walter J. Wildt (died December 23, 2008), sisters Iola ("Babe") Block and Naomi Tyring, son-in-law Bill Scherer, and grandson Todd Scherer.
Funeral Service will be 1 p.m. (CDT) Saturday, June 19, 2021 at St. Matthew Church in Lynnville, IN. Visitation 11:00 a.m. until service time. She will be interred next to her husband at Park Lawn Cemetery in Evansville, Indiana. Published in Courier Press from Jun. 14, to Jun. 15, 2021.
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