Nadean Ada Humphrey

Nadean Ada (Downing) Humphrey, 87, went to heaven on July 26, 2014. Visitation will be held at Cedar Street Baptist church, Tipton, Iowa, on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. The funeral will follow at the church at 11:00 a.m. Burial will be at Camfield Cemetery, Altoona, IA. She resided at Cedar Manor Nursing Home in Tipton. A memorial fund has been established for the Cedar Street Baptist Missions. Online condolences may be shared at www.fryfuneralhome.com. Nadean was born on August 16, 1926 in Adair County, IA to Jesse "Lee" and Velma (Stradley) Downing. As a child Nadean loved milking cows, riding horses, and working in the fields on her parents' Orient, Iowa, farm. After working in Des Moines as a young woman, she married Lester Humphrey in 1947. They farmed together in southern Iowa, Hills, and the Tipton area while raising seven children. After moving into Tipton, she clerked at Schultz Brothers Dime Store and the Sears Roebuck Catalog store. Later she became owner of the Sears store. She was a founding and active member of Cedar Street Baptist Church in Tipton and enjoyed gardening, sewing and crafting, and decorating her Victorian-era home. She was hospitable, often opened her home to friends and strangers, and had the habit of whistling cheerfully while working or crafting. She also loved to sing in the ladies' church groups. She is survived by her children - Steven, Black River Falls, WI; Roy, Tipton; Kathleen, Tipton; Paul (Mary), Bettendorf; Lorraine (Alan) Abrahamson, Tipton; Mark (Joanie), West Branch; and Elizabeth Humphrey-Robison, Littleton, CO; grandchildren - Ron, Ryan, Rachel, Tyson, Jenna, Hayley, Kristal, and Joshua Humphrey, Isaac Abrahamson, and Conrad and Gwenyth Robison; eight great-grandchildren; and her brother, Don (Joan) Downing, Fontanelle, Iowa. Nadean was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, a brother who died in childhood, her son-in-law Bobby Winter and her daughter-in-law Sherry Humphrey.