Eunice Pillard Oct. 10, 1939-March 7, 2017


Eunice Pillard

     Eunice Pillard, age 78, died Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at her home following a sudden illness.

     Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday morning, March 11, 2016 at the First Congregational Church, Anamosa. Interment will be in the Cass Center Cemetery. Rev. Greg Griffin will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 7 p.m. Friday at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa. Memorials may be made to the First Congregational Church. 

     Surviving are three daughters, Rene (Chris) Folk, Seattle, Wash., Denise (Joe) Oswald, Monticello, Darcy (Scott) Hauser, Cedar Rapids; seven grandchildren, Abrahm DeVine, Jacob (Kendra) Oswald, Gretchen and Taylor Oswald, Emily (Kameron) Kretschmar, Claire and Christopher Hauser; her great-grandchildren, Hailey Oswald, Halston and Beckett Kretschmar; her foreign exchange daughter, Liz (Manuel) Rojas and her children, Manuel and Priscilla (RJ) Marshall and their daughter, Ariana. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband David and a son Jason.

     Eunice Estalla Armon was born Oct. 10, 1938 at Ely, Iowa. She was the daughter of John and Estella Dostal, Armon. Eunice graduated from Wilson High School in Cedar Rapids with the class of 1955. She continued her education at the University of Iowa. Eunice Armon and David L. Pillard were married Oct. 17, 1959 at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Anamosa. The couple farmed the Pillard Family Farm north of Anamosa. Eunice was a very accomplished seamstress. She made many wedding, bridesmaid and prom gowns. She also worked for Max Fayram at the Kleenall in Anamosa and later at VonMaur, in Cedar Rapids, as a seamstress. 

     Eunice was an active member of the First Congregational Church. Eunice was a Master Gardner and spent many hours tending her flowers. She also belonged to a bowling group, a crochet, knitting and quilting group, and had belonged to Wapsi Country Club and a neighborhood card club. The most important activity for Eunice was attending all of her grandchildren’s sporting and school events. She had just recently traveled to Omaha to watch her grandson Abrahm swim in the Olympic Trials.

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