BARBARA  J.  IVARSON , 91, of Cherokee, Iowa and formerly of rural Cleghorn, Iowa, passed away Friday evening, June 14, 2019 at Accura Healthcare in Cherokee.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 21 ^st , at 11 a.m. at the Oakdale Evangelical Free Church in rural Meriden, Iowa. Pastor Jonathan Caldwell will officiate. Burial will be in the Liberty Township Cemetery in rural Meriden, Iowa. There will be a family prayer service at 10:45 a.m. at the church on Friday. Visitation will be on Thursday from 2 p.m. until 7 p.m. with the family present from 5 p.m. until 7 p.m. at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Following the visitation there will be a D.A.R. Service at 7 p.m. Thursday evening at the funeral home. Online condolences can be left at www.boothbyfuneral.com .

Barbara was born on March 16, 1928 in Cherokee, Iowa to Sidney & Mary (McCulla) Woodworth. She graduated from Cherokee Wilson High School in 1946. In later years she attended Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, Iowa and received her Librarian's Certificate. She was married to Ervin R. Ivarson on November 27, 1948 at the St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Cherokee. She had worked as a Dental Assistant and Public Librarian, but her passions were being a wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother to her family and a dedicated follower of Jesus Christ. She had been a resident of Cherokee since 2001 and prior to this lived on the Ivarson Farm in Liberty Township, north of Cleghorn, Iowa.

Barbara had been a member of the Oakdale Evangelical Free Church since 1948. She was active in the Church Women's Organizations and had served as the Church Librarian.  Her devotion to studying God's Word and committed prayer life was a testament of her strong faith and served as an example to her family and friends.  Barbara had been an active member of the Daughters of American Revolution since 1983.  In her spare time she enjoyed baking, studying genealogy, reading, church activities, helping others, but most of all spending time with her family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ervin in 1998, a daughter Wanda Jean in 1952, sister and brother-in-law Rachael and William Hantsbarger, brother and sister-in-law Jim and Gertrude Woodworth.

She is survived by her two sons: Verne A. (Lorraine) Ivarson of Tallahassee, Florida; Craig L. (Lynn) Ivarson of Cherokee, Iowa; five grandchildren: Eric (Annie) Ivarson of Cleghorn, Iowa; Joel (Wendy) Ivarson of Cherokee, Iowa; Kristin (Nick) Patterson of Cherokee, Iowa; David (Shana) Ivarson of Chattanooga, Tennessee; Alan (Shannon) Ivarson of Tallahassee, Florida; 17 great grandchildren: Alana, Avery, Asa, Aiden, and Arabella Ivarson of Chatanooga, Tennessee; Landon, Carter, and Hadley Ivarson of Tallahassee, Florida; Sophia, Garrett, and Owen Patterson of Cherokee, Iowa; Mina and Isaac Ivarson of Cherokee, Iowa; Kiefer, Kayson, Koy, and Kale Ivarson of Cleghorn, Iowa.