Ivalee Helen Arrowsmith

Funeral Services for Ivalee Helen Arrowsmith "Ivy" were held 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2016 at Hastings Funeral Home in Perry. Visitation was after 1:00 p.m. with family present from 3:00 until the time of service. Reverend Jeremy Winter of Mt. Olivet Lutheran Church provided words of comfort. Honorary bearers were her great-grandchildren: Andrew Wilson, Cheyenne Salts, Alexander McCollum, Chase Evans and Zachary Evans. Recorded music selected was I'll Fly Away, It Is Well With My Soul, The Old Rugged Cross and How Great Thou Art. Interment will take place at the Valley View Cemetery in Perry, Iowa. Ivalee "Ivy" Helen Hemm, the daughter of Ralph E. Hemm and Helen Edna Mae Johnson Hemm was born February 27, 1931 in Albert City, Iowa and died December 23, 2016 at the Perry Lutheran Home at the age of 85. Ivy was raised in Albert City and graduated from Silver Lake Consolidated High School in 1949. After high school she married Harvey Earl Arrowsmith on May 27, 1949 at Our Saviors Lutheran Church. Together they made their home in Dawson and raised two daughters Julia and Bonnie. She gardened and canned and helped Harvey whenever she could. Ivy moved to Perry after Harvey's death in 1996. She was a homemaker and enjoyed various part time work as a seamstress for family and others. Her front porch was full of sewing fabric and she had been known to craft wedding dresses, afghans, and quilts. She enjoyed crocheting, knitting and tatting as well. You could find her listening to the radio, watching television especially if the "Golden Girls" were on or doing a word search. Ivalee was preceded in death by her parents, husband Harvey November 12, 1996, her sister Verva Carlson and brother-in-law Roy Carlson. Ivalee is survived by her daughters, Julia Arrowsmith of Yale and LaVonne "Bonnie' ( Bob) Thompson of Perry and granddaughters Theresa (Kendall) Wilson-Salts of Perry, and Christine McCollum of Fort Dodge, 5 great-grandchildren, Andrew Wilson, Cheyenne Salts both of Perry and Alexander McCollum, Chase Evans and Zachary Evans all of Fort Dodge and other relatives and friends. Memorials in her name may be left at the funeral home for later designation by her family