Saturday, November 26, 2022

BOONE CONNECTED DEATHS

     Loraine Earls Safly, 87, Ames. Born in Arkansas. Family moved to Ames. Ames HS. Earned a B.A. degree in home economics from ISU. Married Dean Safly in 1956. The couple farmed west of Ames. For more than 30 years, Loraine served as Director of Boone Community Services. In  1996, she was selected as Boone's "Person of the Year." Earlier, she had worked for ISU Extension and Outreach and was an elementary school librarian. She was active in the Madrid P.E.O. chapter, the Ames Questers and volunteered as a  Brunnier Art Museum docent and guide at the Farm House Museum. Loved traveling, including overseas, hiking in national parks, caroling at Christmas and caring for her mother pigs and piglets. Survivors include a son, a daughter and a sister.

     Cheryl Fisher Spear, 83, Boone Eastern Star. Burial in Garwin, IA.

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