She made beautiful sweaters and vests for family, and was especially proud of the 90+ knitted teddy bears with outfits that she made and gave away. She was a skilled knitter and taught many family members to knit over the years. Many of the odds and ends projects done around her home in Emily were paid for with bags of cookies or loaves of her homemade bread. Garnet loved to bake, and everyone enjoyed her baking. In 2009, Garnet moved back to Fort Dodge to be near her family and created new friendships where she lived at the Northridge Apartments. She worked at the local Christian school as a teacher's aide and enjoyed the friendships of the students. They later divorced, and Garnet went to live in Emily, Minnesota, where many of her relatives had settled. Nick's jobs eventually took them to DeKalb, Illinois and Brooklyn Center, Minnesota. During this time Garnet enjoyed being a homemaker and mother to Mike and Kathy. She married Frank (Nick) Nekvinda Augand they made their home in Fort Dodge for many years. The family moved to several different towns in Iowa before finally settling in Fort Dodge, where she attended Fort Dodge schools and graduated in 1944. and Eunice Russell sisters Eunice Carr, Ruth Carlton, Letty Prigge and infant sister Maude Russell brothers Paul Russell and John Russell. Garnet was preceded in death by her parents James F. Those left behind to cherish her memory are her son Mike Nekvinda (Hope Hughett) and daughter Kathy Tinker of Fort Dodge Three granddaughters Jennifer (Mike) Moore, Blacklick, Ohio Michelle (Geoff) Miller, Fort Dodge, Iowa Abby Tinker (Sean Garner), North Liberty, Iowa, two great-grandsons Michael Miller and Matthew Miller and many nieces, nephews and extended family near Emily, Minnesota. Burial will follow in Elkhorn Township Cemetery. Nekvinda, 95, died Friday, Jat Friendship Haven in Fort Dodge, Iowa.Ī private family service will be 10:30 AM Tuesday, Jat Laufersweiler Funeral Home.
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