March 29, 2024

Charlotte J. Flora

Sept. 6, 2015

Charlotte J. Goodman Flora, 88, of Baxter, died Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, at her home in Baxter. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 14 at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton. Burial will be at the Restland Cemetery in Baxter. The family will greet friends from 10 to 11 a.m. Monday, Sept. 14 at the funeral home in Newton. In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to the Baxter Early Learning Center or to the Baxter Community Schools; memorials may be left at the Wallace Family Funeral Home. Memorials may also be mailed to the funeral home, please put Attn: Flora Family on the envelope.

Those left to cherish Charlotte’s memory are her daughters, Rachel (Craig) McKibbin of Rhodes and Roxanne Dougherty of Marengo; four grandchildren, Lisa (Chris Moore) of Estes Park, Colo., Ryan McKibbin of Baxter, Katie Dougherty of Chicago, Ill., and Kris (Erin) Dougherty of Iowa City; four great-grandchildren, Jorden McKibbin of Ankeny, Tyler McKibbin of Baxter, Lauren McKibbin of Baxter and Jackson Dougherty of Iowa City; and her sister, Lorraine Forret of Sheldon.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Ray in 1996; brother, Richard Goodman; and sister, Jean Rojohn Rhodes.

“Of all the gifts that life has to offer, a loving mother is the greatest of them all.”