Obituary: Eva Faye Knutson

Eva Faye Knutson, was born on April 17, 1930, to Anton John and Anna Janette (Jans) Cecak on a farm in  Oneida Township near Clutier, Iowa-the second of three children. The family later moved back to a farm near  Dysart, where her older sister and younger brother were born. She attended schools in Dysart, Geneseo, and Orange  before graduating from Hudson High School in 1949. 

Eva met her future husband, Roger E. Knutson, in eighth grade at Orange school. They were married on  October 14, 1951, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Waterloo, Iowa. Just weeks later, Roger was called to serve in the  Korean War, serving from November 1951 through April 1953. While Roger was in Korea, Eva moved to LaPorte 

City to help her parents at the Gamble store they had purchased after selling their livestock and farm equipment. Her  father passed away the day after Father's Day in 1952, and Eva remained in LaPorte City to assist her mother. Eva worked as a key punch operator at Rath Packing Company in Waterloo, in the credit department at  New York Fashion, and ran a bookkeeping machine at Iowa Securities Real Estate Company - all in downtown  Waterloo. She worked until 1957, when she became a homemaker following the birth of her first child, Kaye. Roger  and Eva bought a house in Waterloo in 1958, and their second child, Kurt, was born in 1959. Roger had a 38-year  career at John Deere at the Product Engineering Center. 

Roger and Eva remained in their Waterloo home until his passing in December 2015. They were married  for 64 years-a time Roger often described as "64 wonderful years." Together they traveled throughout the United  States and made trips to Australia and London. Eva remained in the family home until November 2019, when she  moved to Leawood, Kansas, to be closer to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren to whom she was  lovingly known as "Gran" and "Great Gran." 

Eva was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Vernon Cecak; and her sister, Vernetta Saffell. She is survived by her daughter, Kaye (John) Marshall of Lenexa, Kansas, and their children: Ashlee (Blair)  Teater of Overland Park, Kansas; Eric (Maria) Marshall of Roeland Park, Kansas; and Laura (Mitch) Kerr of  Overland Park, Kansas; and by her son, Kurt (Leanne) Knutson of Overland Park, Kansas, and their children: Katie  (Brogan) Barry of Overland Park, Kansas, and Jack Knutson of Overland Park, Kansas. Eva was blessed with five  great-grandchildren: Michael and Elizabeth Teater, Rory Marshall, and Rosie and Baker Barry. Services were held on March 14, 2026 at Ascension Lutheran Church, 2211 Maynard Avenue, Waterloo,  Iowa 50701, with burial at the Garden of Memories Cemetery, Waterloo. 

Memorials may be directed to Ascension Lutheran Church, 2211 Maynard Avenue, Waterloo, Iowa 50701.  Arrangements for family by Locke on 4th. Condolences may be left at www.LockeFuneralServices.com.