BOONE CONNECTED DEATH

     Anna Mary Sunstrom Gearhart, 89, Waukon. Born in Boone. BHS-51. Drake, ISU and Western Colorado University, with an emphasis on music. Taught elementary school in Lamar, CO. while playing in symphonies in various locations, including Des Moines. Was nominated for Miss Drake during her freshmen year. Also met her husband Dick Gearhart there. In 1970, the couple moved from Lamar to Waukon where she became director of the Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation based in Decorah, serving there for 25 years. She then went to work for 13 years at Veterans Memorial Hospital in the physical therapy department. The couple loved attending sporting events, especially the Drake Relays. She was a 60 year member of P.E.O. and was very active, musically, in Waukon's St. John's Lutheran Church. Survivors include three daughters and a son. Husband Dick passed away in 2020. Services in Waukon. Burial in Boone.