Imelda M. Beringer July 20, 1928 – December 29, 2018 Share this obituary Send Flowers View/Sign Guest Book| Send Private Condolences| Send Sympathy Card Imelda M. Beringer of Cascade, Iowa, died Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 12:10 p.m., peacefully surrounded by her loving family at Shady Rest Care Center in Cascade, Iowa. Friends and relatives of Imelda may call from 2 to 8 p.m., Thursday, January 3, 2018 at the Reiff Funeral Home in Cascade, Iowa where a wake service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friends may also call after 9 a.m., Friday at the funeral home. Services for Imelda will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, January 4, 2018 at St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Cascade, Iowa with Rev.
Douglas Loecke officiating. Burial will be held in Calvary Cemetery in Cascade, Iowa. Imelda was born July 20, 1928 in Cascade, Iowa, daughter of John M. and Elizabeth (Curtis) Kedley.
She graduated from St. Martin’s High School in 1947. On November 25, 1947, she was united in marriage to William Beringer at St. Martin’s Catholic Church in Cascade where they remained married for 66 years until her husband’s death in 2014. Together they farmed their entire lives with the first 10 years of marriage in the Fillmore/Bernard rural areas, and then moving to Cascade where they purchased their family farm for the remaining years of their marriage.
Imelda was a very spiritual person, she believed in the power of prayer, and divine intervention. She would often quote to her children the Irish Catholic Priest Patrick Peyton quote “the family that prays together stays together”. Her greatest joy was spending time with her husband, children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren and their many family gatherings.
She was a member of St. Mathias Parish, the Cascade Catholic Daughters of the America’s-Our Blessed Mother Court #1926 and the Cascade Senior Citizen’s. She enjoyed playing cards with her neighborhood friends for over 50 years. She is survived by eight children, Linda (Ladd) Nachazel of Anamosa, Barbara (Martin) Shafer of Coralville, Edna (Larry) Heiar of LaMotte, Bill Beringer Jr. of Cascade, Mary (Dan) Goedken of Petersburg, John (Sheila) Beringer of Cascade, Amy (Rick) Bergfeld of Peosta, and Sandra Dotterweich of Monticello, IA.
Also , 27 Grandchildren and 34 great-grandchildren; Sister-in-laws, Teci (Jim) Lehmann of Cascade, and Bernice Beringer of Dyersville. She was preceded in death by her Parents; her husband, William Beringer on July 1, 2014; her siblings and their spouses, Paul (Hilda) Kedley, Leanard in infancy, Donald Kedley, Curtis (Mary) Kedley, Mary Carmelita (Marcellus) Westemeiar, Melba (Nickolas) Bertling, Orville Kedley, Orland (Edith) Kedley and Ione (Arnold) Beringer; Her father and mother-in-law, Joseph and Mary Beringer. Her brother and sister-in-laws, Victor (Anna) Beringer, Carl (Alvina) Beringer, Nick Beringer, Arnold (Ione) Beringer, and Odelia (Eldon “Pete”) Boffeli.
The family would like to thank Shady Rest Care Center and Hospice of Dubuque for their wonderful care of Imelda, and a special thanks to Fr. Loecke for all his care and support. A Imelda M. Beringer memorial fund has been established.
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