Iva Jean Tawater

Iva Jean Hensel Tawater, 80, of Waco went home to be with the Lord on Sunday, November 1, 2015. Services will be at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4, 2015, at Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud, Texas, with the Reverend Allen Bramlett officiating. Burial will follow at Rosebud Woodland Cemetery. Visitation with the family will be from 3 to 3:30 p.m., prior to the service at the funeral home.

Iva Jean was born July 4, 1935, in Burlington, Texas, to Charles Hensel and Mary Nussbaum Hensel. She graduated from Rosebud High School in 1952. She married Robert Carl Tawater in 1953 and moved to Waco in 1956. She was preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Edgar Hensel and Leonard Hensel.

Iva Jean is survived by her four children, Chuck Tawater of Royse City, Carla Tawater Holecek and husband Michael of Speegleville, Michelle Tawater Wunnicke and husband Michael of Sherwood, Oregon, and Mike Tawater and wife Emily of Woodway; grandchildren Sarah Tawater Taylor, Michael, Jacob, and Zachary Holecek, Cole and Courtney Wunnicke, and Jad, Rustin, Will, and Callan Tawater. Pallbearers will be her grandsons.

The family would like to thank...Providence Hospice for their care and compassion in her last days. They would also like to thank the many caregivers at Crestview Manor Nursing Home who cared for and loved her through her many years in the nursing home.