SERVICES
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
11:00 AM

OFFICIATING
Elder James Reeves Sr.

VISITATION
Hill & Son Funeral Home
Appleton City, Missouri
Wednesday, September 20, 2006
10:00 - 11:00 AM

INTERMENT
Taberville Cemetery
Taberville, Missouri

MEMORIALS
Evelyn Brown Laney Hospice or
Taberville Cemetery

Irene Harleman Strickler Grayer, the second daughter of Virgil and Lula (Carroll) Harleman, was born April 21, 1915 in Rockville, Missouri. She passed away September 17, 2006 at Ellett Memorial Hospital in Appleton City, Missouri at 91 years of age.
Irene spent most of her life in the Taberville, Missouri area except for 15 years when she lived in Independence, Missouri where she worked at Rest Haven and Skyview Manor, and the time spent at Appleton City Manor Nursing Home near the end of her life. Mrs. Grayer enjoyed working with older people and had been a cook at her places of employment. Those she worked with and for enjoyed the food she prepared and her infectious giggle in the mornings telling those around her that she was there and on the job.
Irene and Charley Strickler were married and to this union six children were born. She was saved in 1964 at the RLDS Church in Independence, Missouri and later became a member of the RLDS Church in Butler, Missouri. Irene enjoyed making quilts and rugs and had made quilts for all of her children and grandchildren. She also liked to work in her vegetable and flower gardens.
Those preceding Irene in death were her parents, one son James Strickler, five brothers, three sisters, one grandchild and one great-grandchild. Survivors include five children, Charles Strickler and wife Martha of Peoria, Arizona, Bernice Marshall of Rockville, Missouri, Clara and husband Ed Dunham of Appleton City, Missouri, June and husband J.W. Jelks of Rockville, Missouri, Shirley Strickler of Taberville, Missouri and Betty and husband Jerry Hayes of Creighton, Missouri; 19 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 35 great-great-grandchildren; one brother Milburn Harleman of Independence, Missouri and one sister Vinita Padgett of North Kansas City, Missouri.