Janice Stevenson, 80

July 22, 1941 —

April 15, 2022

 

TOLEDO - Janice Marie Stevenson, age 80, of Toledo, Iowa, passed away on Friday, April 15, 2022 at the University of Iowa Hospital at Iowa City, Iowa. 

Visitation will be held on Thursday, April 21, 2022 at Conway-Markham Funeral Home in Elma, Iowa at 11 a.m.; with funeral services following at noon. Interment will then be at Howard Cemetery, Elma. Online condolences may left at www.conway-markhamfh.com. In lieu of flowers memorials may be directed to the family.

Janice was born on July 22, 1941 in Ridgeway, Iowa, the daughter of Adolf and Thresa (Stika) Komarek. She was the youngest of four children and attended school at Assumption and Notre Dame in Cresco, Iowa.

Janice was united in marriage to Ronald Dean Stevenson at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa on June 30, 1958. They moved to Toledo in 1959, living in the country where they raised six children. She was a homemaker until all the children were grown. The couple then moved into town, where she started her second career, working at Toledo Chronicle, PrintCo, and Carrington Place Nursing Home, until retiring.

Janice was a member of Toledo American Legion Auxiliary, being 3rd District President 1989/1990. She enjoyed road trips, flower gardens, working in her large yard, the company of friends and watching her grandchildren and great-grandchildren grow.

Janice is survived by five children, Kevin of Merrill, Wis., Bobby (Barb) of Keystone Heights, Fla., Kim (Dennis Scarbrough) Buenzow of Nashua, Valerie (Karl) Koenig of Stockbridge, Ga. and Ronald Scott (Mandy) of Storm Lake, Iowa; 14 grandchildren, Matthew, Daniel, Shasta, Olivia, Laura, Kelsey, Sara, Jill, Katelyn, Megan, Hilary, Charles, Evan and Jacob; and 10 great-grandchildren, with “baby Hodges” coming soon.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ron (Aug. 27, 2015); two sisters, Gertie Havlik and Lorraine Morris; brother, James Komarek; daughter, Rhonda (June 24, 1974); and grandson, Daniel (March 6, 2006).