TOLEDO – Ada M. Squiers, age 89, died on Sunday, July 16, 2006 at Grandview Acres in Toledo under the care of Iowa River Hospice, following a lengthy illness. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 10:30 A.M. at the Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home in Tama with Pastor Charles Johnson, officiating. Interment will follow at Haven Cemetery in rural Tama. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 18 from 4 to 7 P.M. at the Kruse-Phillips Funeral Home in Tama.
Ada M. Squiers was born on June 8, 1917, in Haven, Iowa, the daughter of Frank and Florence (Rector) Stone.
She attended Haven School and graduated from Brooklyn High School in 1935. She taught country school in Poweshiek County and after her marriage to Wallace Squiers on June 1, 1938, they lived in Chicago for several years. She came back to the Haven area and farmed with her husband, they then managed the Des Moines YMCA Camp in Boone, Iowa. Ada later managed the Hotel Toledo for many years until retiring in 1987.
Ada was a member of Haven Church and the Eldeen Club at the church. She was also a member of the Stitch and Go Quilting Club and the Tama-Toledo Civic Women. As a hobby, Ada enjoyed sewing and quilting, and also growing and sharing flowers at her regular visits to Grandview Acres.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Wallace in 1974; and one sister, Helen Beadle.
Survivors include four sons; Curtis (Mechele) Squiers of Figtree NSW, Australia, Brian (Vickii) Squiers of Tama, Colin (Mary) Squiers of Cedar Rapids, and Mark (Sharol) Squiers of Toledo; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; two sisters, Carol (Frank) Squiers of Marshalltown, and Faye Gallagher of Brooklyn; and several nieces and nephews.
A memorial fund has been established.