Doris Daskam, age 97, of Harmony, Minn., passed away Tuesday, September 4, 2018, at the Gundersen Harmony Care Center in Harmony. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Friday, September 7, 2018, at the United Methodist Church in Harmony, followed by burial in State Line Methodist Cemetery, rural Harmony. Friends may call from 1 p.m. until time of services at the church.
Doris was born December 24, 1920, in rural Bluffton, Iowa, to John and Ruth (Sjobakken) Greenslade. She married Gerald Daskam on June 1, 1941, on her parents’ farm near Cresco, Iowa. She and Gerald farmed all of their married life together. Doris loved working beside her husband, driving hayfork and raking hay; she had a flair for raising chickens and together they grew apple trees from which she made apple pies and sauce. They enjoyed square dancing and playing cards.
Doris was a long-time member of the State Line Methodist Church; when it closed she joined the United Methodist Church in Harmony. Doris always found time to create crocheted dolls and afghans; each grandchild has received an afghan she made.
Recently she enjoyed her six years at Heritage Grove, now Clara House.
Doris is survived by four children: Geraldine Linville of Bloomington, Minn., Judith (Jerry) Vreeman of Spring Valley, JoAnn (Curtis) Ballman of Waterville, Minn., and Charles (Deborah) Daskam of Cresco, Iowa; 11 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild; and a sister, Lorraine Hanson of Independence, Iowa. Doris is preceded in death by her parents, husband Gerald in 2000, grandson Steven Daskam in 2008, a son-in-law, Cedric Linville in 2010, and three brothers: Robert, LaVerne and Donald.