Edith M. Heldt

Edith M. Heldt, 86, passed away on Saturday, July 3, 2010, at the Evangelical Free Church Home in Boone following a brief illness.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m., Wednesday July 7, 2010, at Zion Lutheran Church in Ogden. Rev. Stephen Ude will officiate. Burial will be at Maas Cemetery rural Ogden, Iowa. Visitation will be Wednesday, from 9:00 a.m., until the time of services at the church. Carson - Stapp Funeral Home in Ogden is in charge of the arrangements.
Edith Maxine Robinson was born on August 6, 1923, in Napier, Iowa, the daughter of
Marion and Zella (Miller) Robinson. She graduated with the Boone High School class of 1942. Following her education, Edith worked at the Ordinance Plant in Ankeny. Edith was united in marriage to Vern Heldt on August 6, 1944. The couple farmed in the Beaver and Ogden area from 1946 until 1959. During this time she was a member of Zion Lutheran Church and LWML. In 1959, Edith and Vern moved to Ames where they belonged to St. Paul's Lutheran Church. Edith was employed by Ames Fruit & Grocery for a number of years and later worked at ISU Physical Plant where she remained until retiring. Following retirement they moved to Boone in 1992 and rejoined Zion Lutheran Church.
Edith enjoyed gardening, quilting, reading, and various crafts.
Survivors include her husband, Vern Heldt of Boone, Iowa; two sons, Donald Heldt and wife Pat, of Grayson, Georgia, and Dean Heldt and wife Suzi, of Zearing, Iowa; one daughter, Deborah Heldt Schafer and husband Craig of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota; grandchildren, Paul Williamson, Pamela Stephenson, Bruce Heldt and wife Rita, Ryan Heldt, Sean Heldt, Tara (Heldt) Menke and her husband, Jeff, Kylie (Schafer) Wilcox and husband, Milton, Robert and Alec Schafer; great grandchildren, Chandler Briggs Williamson, George Alexander Bruce Stephenson, Jackson Menke, Carter Menke, and Talitha Wilcox; one sister, Alice Satre of Des Moines, Iowa; two brothers, Dick Robinson of Anaheim, California, and Charles Robinson of Diamond Bar, California; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers: Bert, Max, and Verne Robinson; and two sisters, Frances Robinson and Doris Tuttle.
Memorials may be left to the Evangelical Free Church Home, 112 4th St. West, Boone, Iowa, 50036.