Jennie Whalen Piscator

Jennie Whalen Piscator was born May 7, 1917 to Maggie Reeverts Whalen and Joe Whalen on a farm near Round Lake, Minnesota. She was baptized July 1, 1917 at the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Park. She started school at Ewington Consolidated School at Spafford, Minnesota. At the age of ten she moved with her parents to Dickens, Iowa where she finished her schooling. She was a member of the First Methodist Church in Dickens. On June 25, 1938, she was united in marriage to Iver Piscator of Worthington, Minnesota and to this union three children were born. They lived on a farm near Worthington for three years and then moved to a farm in Sioux Valley, Minnesota. On October 4, 1953, they became members of the First Presbyterian Church in Lake Park. They moved to Lake Park in 1965. In April of 1970, she started a floral shop specializing in silk wedding flowers. Later she added a green house and continued in the business until she retired in 1993. Jennie passed away April 25, 2009 at the Lake Park Care Center in Lake Park, Iowa at ninety-one years of age. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1995, her parents; one brother, Joe; two sisters, Florence Blighton and Bertha Strohman and one great-grandchild, Brenna Aery. She leaves to mourn her children, Ruby Murphy and husband, Tom of Spencer, Iowa, Janice Sangl and husband, Jim of Wahpeton, Iowa and Bob Carter and wife, Barbara of Sioux Falls, South Dakota; two sisters, Alma Blum of Fonda, Iowa and Mae Reinholdt of LeMars, Iowa; one brother, Melvin Whalen and wife, Lillian of Dickens, Iowa; ten grandchildren; many great-grandchildren; several great-great-grandchildren; many more relatives and a host of friends.