Funeral services for Elverda Schwitzer of Denison, Iowa, were held Monday, December 6, 1999, at the Our Savior Lutheran Church in Denison. Interment was held at the Crawford Heights Memory Gardens in Denison. Huebner Funeral Home in Denison was in charge of arrangements.

Elverda Helen (Lamp) Schwitzer was born October 3, 1926, the daughter of Hubert and Amelia (Westphalen) Lamp. She died at the Eventide Lutheran Home in Denison, Iowa, Thursday, December 2, 1999, at the age of seventy-three.

Elverda was born on a farm in Carroll County, near Manning, Iowa. At the age of four she moved with her parents to Crawford County. She received her education in a rural school in Iowa Township No. 2 and the Manning Community School in Manning, Iowa. She was baptized in Christ and confirmed on April 24, 1947, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Manning, Iowa.

After completing her education, Elverda remained at home to assist her parents with farming and household duties in Crawford and Carroll Counties. In 1954, Elverda worked at the Manning Creamery Company in Manning.

On June 10, 1956, Elverda was united in marriage to Eldor Schwitzer, the son of Rudolph and Minnie Schwitzer, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Manning by Reverend George Eschenbacher. Elverda and Eldor were blessed with the birth of one son, Keith Alan. During their married years, Elverda worked several different jobs including packing eggs for Chain-O-Egg and nearly twenty years at Farmland in Denison.

Elverda was a charter member of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Denison, which she and her husband helped organize in 1970. Throughout her life, Elverda's interests centered strongly on her home, community and church as she shared her talents of baking, cooking, unselfish generosity and unrelenting labor for the benefit of all who sought a helping hand. She was very much at home in the outdoors and was especially fond of flowers and gardening. In her leisure time, she loved dancing and was Octoberfest Polka Queen in Sioux City. Elverda and Eldor joined the "Royal-Rovers" camping group in 1969, which provided the opportunity to travel throughout the United States.

The couple enjoyed two trips to Germany, one in 1975 and again in 1977. Elverda and her, husband also enjoyed spending their winters in Weslaco, Texas, for the past several years, where Elverda actively participated in many activities including maintaining the flower beds in Rio Valley Estates Park.

Elverda was preceded in death by her parents and one sister.

Survivors include her devoted and faithful husband, Eldor Schwitzer, of Denison; one son, Keith Schwitzer, and his wife, Cindy, of Henderson, Nevada; two sisters: Eunice Rumpel and her husband, Jay, of Laramie, Wyoming; Joanne Dunkerson and her husband, Ronald, of Panora, Iowa; one sister-in-law, Grace Cooper and her husband, Vern, of Phoenix, Arizona; other relatives, neighbors and many friends.