Lynne Hendry Moeller (Mary Ethellyn Hendry) was born September 24, 1942, in Minneapolis, to Allen J. and Monica Schissel Hendry (both now deceased) and died at home in Okoboji on March 21, 2026. She is survived by her daughter, Mary Moeller, and son, Michael Moeller (with partner Stephanie Abel), all of whom reside in Minneapolis. She is also survived by her older sister, Judith Ann Hendry Beshaw (Tom), in Arizona; her brother, Robert Allen Hendry (Leigh), in Tennessee; and her brother-in-law, Bob (Nard) Conard, in Ohio. Her younger sister, Kerry, passed away in 2023. Kerry and Lynne spoke on the phone daily for twenty years, discussing the world’s problems and those of the Pittsburgh Steelers. They also talked extensively about their offspring.
Lynne formerly lived in Ames, Turtle Creek, Des Moines, Milford, Omaha, Minneapolis; and Buffalo, Snyder and Wilkinsburg, NY; as well as Beaver, PA. She had attended nine different schools in eight different towns by the time she graduated from high school. Lynne graduated from eighth grade at Christ the King School in Buffalo (1956). At Christ the King, she was part of the youth Rosary Altar Society, wherein she helped keep the vestments and altar cloths clean, polished the altar, and oiled the communion rail. Lynne felt very honored in performing these service duties. She graduated from high school at Beaver Area High School in Beaver (1960), and she received a BS from Iowa State University in 1964.
Lynne married Gary Moeller and bore two children: Mary in 1965 and Michael in 1967. Gary’s mother died soon thereafter, and the couple returned to Milford so that Gary could help his father run the family business, Moellers of Milford, Inc., established in 1908. After the kids started school, she worked at Moeller’s for many years. After selling the business in the 1990s, Lynne and Gary opened the Washboard Laundromat in Milford. Lynne loved interacting with customers; she kept an office in the laundromat where she took great pleasure in interacting with them on a daily basis.
One day, not long after she moved to Milford in January of 1968, she received a phone call from a woman named Sharon who asked her if she would like to attend a JayceeEttes meeting. Lynne didn’t know Sharon, and neither did she know anything about the JayceeEttes. Nonetheless, she went to the meeting, and this was the moment when the “volunteer bug” bit her hard. From that moment on, she would be involved in anything at all that would help people or pets. In the 1970s, she received the Outstanding President Award in the state of Iowa. Lynne was Chair of the Bloodmobile. She and her children enjoyed delivering Meals on Wheels, and Lynne helped start and continued to be engaged in the Milford Commercial Club.
Lynne contributed generously to Union Memorial Church in Milford, where she served as volunteer church secretary. At Union Memorial, she started TWIGS (Triumphant Workers In God’s Service), an elementary after-school group that fed about fifty kids each week. She played a significant role in Milford’s Centennial (1992), during which she ran the souvenir section and helped plant marigolds around Florence Park and the intersection of 10th St. and Okoboji Avenue. In the early 1990s, she joined Calvary United Methodist Church in Arnolds Park and served as volunteer secretary for twenty years. Lynne was closely involved in the planning of the new Calvary Church building from its inception to its completion. In the aughts, she moved to her final home in Okoboji, where she served as president of the Trailview Estates Condo Association for several years. That volunteer bug endured until the days when her health began to deteriorate.
Lynne always wanted to help others. Her final words of advice to us all: “Honestly love one another and care for those you don’t know.”
The family requests that all memorials be given to your charity of choice or to Christ the King School, 2 Lamark Drive, Snyder, New York 14226.
Arrangements are under the care of Turner Jenness Funeral Home.
