Tressa Charlene Gravitt HALL

Generation: 1

Tressa Charlene Gravitt HALL was born 19 Jul 1918, Ames, Story, Iowa; died 2 Aug 2002, Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa.

Notes:

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.

Tressa married Kenneth Ray STRAHORN 1 Aug 1937, Nashua, Chickasaw Co., Iowa. Kenneth (son of Ray L. STRAHORN and Alva Hannah WILSON) was born 14 Dec 1917, Robertson, Hardin Co., Iowa; died 3 Apr 1997, Chandler, Maricopa, Arizona; was buried Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Frederick Ray STRAHORN was born 13 Mar 1939, Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa; died 29 Jul 1995, Sacramento, California; was buried Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa.
3. Sandra Kay STRAHORN was born 20 Feb 1940, Boone, Boone, Iowa; died 14 Sep 2009, Rockwall, Texas.
4. Judith Lee STRAHORN

Generation: 2

Frederick Ray STRAHORN

(1.Tressa¹) was born 13 Mar 1939, Marshalltown, Marshall, Iowa; died 29 Jul 1995, Sacramento, California; was buried Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls, Hardin, Iowa.

Frederick married Dorothy Jean ALLEN 1 Aug 1964. [Group Sheet]

Frederick married Kathy DOBBINS 24 Apr 1984, Clark, Nevada. [Group Sheet]

3. Sandra Kay STRAHORN (1.Tressa¹) was born 20 Feb 1940, Boone, Boone, Iowa; died 14 Sep 2009, Rockwall, Texas.
Sandra — John (Jack) Allen NICHOLSON. [Group Sheet]
4. Judith Lee STRAHORN (1.Tressa¹)
Judith married Robert WISKUS [Group Sheet]