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- SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.-Tressa Charlene Strahorn, 83, of Scottsdale, Ariz., and formerly of Iowa Falls, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at the Chandler Care Center, Chandler, Ariz., of complications from Alzheimer's disease. Memorial services will be Friday Aug. 9, at 11 a.m. at the Linn's Funeral Chapel, Iowa Falls, with Rev. Rhoda Preston officiating. Inurnment will follow at Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls.
Tressa was born July 19, 1918, at Ames to Fred W. and Violet Hall. She graduated from the Iowa Falls Community Schools with the class of 1937. On Aug. 1, 1937, she married Kenneth R. Strahorn at the Little Brown Church, Nashua. She and her husband owned and operated Hall-Strahorn Hardware in Algona for several years. The couple moved to Iowa Falls in the early '60s where they assumed ownership and operation of the Iowa Falls Roofing Company. They retired in 1983 to Scottsdale. Tressa was an active community volunteer in Iowa Falls. She was a charter member of the Ellsworth Hospital's "Pink Ladies." She was a Past Worthy Matron of the White Shrine. She was actively involved in various guilds and circles within the First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Sandra Kay and her husband, Jack Nicholson, of Dallas, Texas, and Judith Lee and her husband, Robert Wiskus, of McCook Lake, S.D.; a daughter-in-law, Kathy Strahorn, of Sacramento, Calif.; nine grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and a sister, Betty Tinken, of Humboldt. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Kenneth; her son, Fred; a granddaughter, Jacqueline Nicholson; a great-granddaughter, Abigail Wiskus.
The Linn's Funeral Homes, Iowa Falls Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Memorials may be directed to local Iowa Falls foundations, Alzheimer's disease or S.I.D.S.
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