Charlene Ruth Standley Gartin, age 76, went to see her Savior on April 30, 2024. Funeral services will be held Monday, May 6, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. at the Pierschbacher Funeral Home in Chariton. Family will receive friends Sunday, May 5th from 2:00 until 5:00 p.m. at the Pierschbacher Funeral Home. Interment will be at the Russell Cemetery following the service and a luncheon and time of fellowship will be held at the Russell Baptist Church after the burial.
Charlene was born on June 25, 1947, in Cedar Falls, Iowa to Floyd and Alma Standley. She accepted Jesus as her Savior at age five. Following graduation from Cedar Falls High School in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 1965, she completed a course at the Academy of Automation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Charlene married Charles Dennis Gartin on October 15, 1965. They were blessed with two children, David Standley Gartin and Michelle Beth Gartin O’Neil.
She enjoyed life and enjoyed traveling, photography, helping with canning produce from the garden (although she did this on her terms only), she was also a skillful marksman. When target practicing, she was left handed with a right eye, but she was equally skillful with her right hand.
Charlene demonstrated and sold Magic Mill and Bosch Kitchen machines for a number of years. She enjoyed demonstrating and selling these machines at home shows and the cattle congress, and she loved to make bread using the flour made with these machines.
Charlene faithfully served the Lord, volunteering in Bible School and Awana at Walnut Ridge Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa and picked up college students at UNI for 7 years to bring them to church, often times fitting more than 20 people in a 15 passenger van. A servant to the Lord, she served with a joyful heart and always made life fun for those around her.
Charles and Charlene loved to volunteer and served with Continental Baptist Missions for fifteen years as church builders. They also volunteered at Ethnos 360 (New Tribes Missions) in Sanford, Florida during the winters for nine years. The last five years, they spent the winters at Maranatha Village in Sebring, Florida.
Full of Grace and an unwaivering faith in God, she battled cancer three different times. Charlene passed away, April 30, 2024, surrounded by her family. She was preceded in death by her parents, Floyd and Alma Standley; sister, Joice Fuller; niece, Teresa (Fuller) Butsma; and nephew, Wayne Gartin.
Charlene is survived by her husband, Charles Dennis Gartin; children, David (Gina) Gartin and Michelle (Doug) O’Neil; grandchildren: Diana O’Neil, Kelsey (David) Gartin Jamison, Allisa Gartin, CJ (Becka) O’Neil, Hannah Gartin, Chase Gartin, Breanne Gartin, Josiah O’Neil, and Cade Gartin; along with several nieces and nephews.
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