Funeral Services for Youvaun Fine, were held Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 10 AM at Cummings Family Funeral Home. Visitation washeld 1 hour prior to services. Interment was held at Shearer Cemetery in Rural Page County, Iowa. Memorials may be directed towards Taylor County MATURA or New Nodaway County Humane Society.
Geleta Youvaun (Akers) Fine was born November 18, 1928 in Gravity, Iowa to Otto Ray Akers and Eunice (Piper) Akers. She grew up attending country schools near Gravity and attended Gravity High School. She then moved with her family to Bedford, Iowa.
Youvaun married Clifton Fred Fine on January 15, 1951 at the Methodist Parsonage in Bedford, Iowa. To this union three children were born, Janice, Janet and Danny. The couple lived on various farms south of Bedford eventually settling on their home place in 1963. Youvaun enjoyed living on the farm and all that the country had to offer. Each year she grew a huge garden and enjoyed sharing her bountiful harvest with her family, friends and neighbors. After high school, Youvaun worked at the Bedford National Bank then in later years Youvaun worked at O'Brian Brothers as a seamstress and was a cook for the Highway Café in Hopkins and the State Line Café then was a waitress at The Bus Barn restaurant in Bedford before working in the kitchen at the Bedford Care Facility.
Youvaun’s hobbies included feeding and watching wildlife on the farm, embroidery, quilting, making Christmas ornaments, helping Fred in making his apple cider and wine, makings molasses, pulling taffy, and playing cards with friends, playing games with her grandchildren and baking and tending to her daylilies garden. Youvaun was not the type to sit still. She was always looking for something to do and someone to help. Her family was her greatest love and "love" them she did.
Preceding Youvaun in death were her parents, Ray and Eunice Akers; husband, Fred Fine; daughter and son-in-law Janet and Don Wymore; along with her brothers and sisters.
Left to cherish Youvaun's memory are her children, Janice (Ed) Connett and Danny Fine; grandchildren, Shiela Lepley, Kenny Connett, Debbie (Geno) Pierson, Seth Holton; great-grandchildren, Christopher, Dacota, Brenna, Jaxson, Alec, Allison; great-great-grandchildren, Ethan, Emily, Kylan and 1 more on the way plus many nephews and nieces.
May God give peace and comfort to all that knew and loved Youvaun.
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