{"id":11568,"date":"2021-06-26T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=11568"},"modified":"2021-06-26T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:05:25","slug":"victoria-ann-merritt-strawberry-point-iowa-june-24-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2021\/06\/victoria-ann-merritt-strawberry-point-iowa-june-24-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria Ann Merritt, Strawberry Point, Iowa, June 24, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Victoria Ann Merritt<\/strong>, 62, of Strawberry Point, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 24, 2021, at her residence, surrounded by family, after a long, courageous battle with breast cancer.\u00a0\u00a0She was born October 30, 1958, to Gene Edward and Janice Joan ((Zapf) West in Prairie du Chien, WI. Vickie was a 1977 graduate of Central Community high school and attended Hamilton Business College for accounting. Through the years she worked for H&R Block, and the offices of The Wayne County Hospital and L&M Tire.<\/p>\n

Vickie was the proud mother of five sons: Michael, Levi, Quinten, Clayton and Luke and the grandmother of nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.<\/p>\n

In addition to caring for and keeping up with a large family, Vickie enjoyed playing cards and spending time with family and friends at the cabin. Vickie was well known for being a good cook and had many highly sought after dishes such as her potato salad, goulash, and chili. Vickie was never a complainer and always kept a positive attitude which made her a joy to be around and will be truly missed by all. Vickie was confirmed and a longtime member of the Hope Lutheran Church in Littleport, Iowa.<\/p>\n

Vickie was preceded in death by her son, Michael Nading; her infant grandson, William Nading;\u00a0mother, Janice West and sister,\u00a0Tammy West.<\/p>\n

She is survived by her father, Gene West, of Strawberry Point; sons, Levi (Meghan) Merritt, Osceola, Quinten (Erin) Merritt, Clayton Merritt, and Luke Merritt, all of Seymour; \u00a0siblings, Ed (Lianne) West, Mankato, Tim (Debbie) West, Strawberry Point, Tina West, Monona, and Terry (Janet) West, Auburndale, FL; \u00a0eight grandchildren, Mary Ann, Zeb, Zach, Karsyn, Karleigh, John, Macy, and Lincoln; one great-grandchild, Deni, along with many aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews and friends.<\/p>\n

Immediately following the graveside service, a Celebration of Life and Luncheon will be held at Tim and Deb\u2019s cabin.<\/p>\n

Graveside Service<\/strong>: 10:00 AM on Monday, June 28, 2021, at Union Cemetery, Littleport, IA.<\/p>\n

Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n

Online condolences may be left with www.graufuneralhomes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victoria Ann Merritt, 62, of Strawberry Point, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 24, 2021, at her residence, surrounded by family, after a long, courageous battle with breast cancer.\u00a0\u00a0She was born October 30, 1958, to Gene Edward and Janice Joan ((Zapf) West in Prairie du Chien, WI. Vickie was a 1977 graduate of Central Community high […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11569,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[919],"class_list":["post-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-merritt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}