Grace E. Reidburn

Grace Evelyn (Benson) Reidburn, 91, died April 27, 2017, at Methodist West Hospital in West Des Moines. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday at McLaren’s Chapel in West Des Moines with burial at Resthaven Cemetery. Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.

Grace was born November 14, 1925, in Frankfort, SD to Sherman and Ethel (Hanley) Benson. She attended all 12 years in the Clark school system and graduated from Clark High School in 1943. Upon graduation she worked in Seattle, WA. On January 8, 1945, she was united in marriage to Bernard Reidburn and upon his discharge from the U.S. Navy they resided in Clark, SD. In 1952 they moved to Frankfort, SD where they operated the Frankfort Café, and then moved to Des Moines, IA in 1960. Grace worked at McCoy’s Clothing until 1967. She then worked for Principal Life Insurance Company, retiring in 1988. In 1988 they moved to Lake Ponderosa in Montezuma, IA and later moved to West Des Moines in 1995. She moved to Illahee Hills in Urbandale in 2016 and made many friends and loved her time there. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a member of Faith Lutheran Church in Clive, IA.

Grace is survived by one daughter, Patricia (Robert) Centner of Fairfield, IA; two sons, Butch (Marsha) of Des Moines, IA and Kerry (Elizabeth) of Norwalk, IA; seven grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren with one on the way; and one great-great-granddaughter; and brother-in-law, Dean Dudley.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Robert and his wife, Mary Ann; sister, Myrtle Heffernan and her husband, John; sister, Mary Dudley; brother-in-law, Harold Reidburn and his wife, Hazel; sister-in-law, Doris Drake and her husband, Marshall; and cousin-in-law, Alvah Macer and his wife, Mildred.

We would like to thank the staff at Methodist West and Illahee Hills Senior Living Center in Urbandale for the great care mom received while there.

Memorials may be made to the Unity Lutheran Church in Des Moines, IA.