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Enes Logli

September 6, 1921 - January 30, 2022

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On Sunday, January 30, 2022, the Son of God tenderly carried the soul of Enes Logli to His Father’s heavenly home, where He has been preparing a room for her. Enes’ Earthly father, Bartolomeo Linari, built and prepared an Earthly home for Enes in Ankeny, where she lived for 75yrs.  Enes was briefly cared for at Taylor Hospice House, by her daughter Denise, her niece Ann, and her ‘other daughter’, Karla. Special thanks to earth angel Kateryna, at Taylor House, for her exceptional and heart felt care.

There will be a private graveside service and burial at Highland Memory Gardens beside her beloved husband and WWII Medic, Reco Logli.

Since there will be no visitation or funeral service due to family circumstances, her family hopes you write an online condolence or send your memories of Enes to her home address in Ankeny or to Memorial Services of Iowa, PO Box 909, 4208 N Ankeny Blvd, Ankeny, Iowa 50021. The family would love to know your memories and relationship with her, through your eyes.

If ‘Mrs Logli’ was ever your Elementary Music teacher in Altoona, or choir and chorus leader at Ankeny High School or Ankeny Methodist Church, or your 6th grade math teacher at Northwest Elementary, or your neighbor or friend…please, please share a memory at www.AnkenyMemorial.com. They will be cherished by her family.

Enes is survived by her brother, Richard Linari; son, Peter (Rebecca) Logli; daughter, Denise (Alan) Jones; three grandchildren, Christine Ledo, Andrew Jones and David Jones; two great grandchildren, Andrianna & Christopher Ledo; two sisters-in-law, Dena Logli Randolph and Virginia Larson Logli; as well as her beloved nieces and nephews.

Enes was born in 1921 near Madrid, Iowa in Zookspur, where she lived until she was five years old. As soon as her father, Bartolomeo, completed the family home in Madrid, they moved to State Street in Madrid where Enes attended Madrid school K-11th grade. Her family then moved to Newton, Iowa where her father began work for the Maytag family, building many barns and buildings for their 13 dairy farm locations, which they owned and operated in addition to their washing machine factory. By then Enes’ God-given vocal talent had blossomed. She sang for dozens of events and funerals her senior year at Newton, including the funeral of Fred Maytag’s father, EH Maytag, in July of 1940. The Maytag family developed a close relationship with Bartolomeo due to common horticultural, construction, and personal interests. Because of their generosity, Enes was accepted and attended the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago 1940-1941, a year after her graduation from Newton in 1939. She also attended the Harmon School of Music at Drake University in the 1940s and was a member of Sigma Alpha Iota. Enes lived on campus and with her two older sisters as she attended Drake and worked various jobs while her future husband, Reco, was overseas training and serving for four long years in England, France & Belgium. Reco was a medic who landed at Omaha Beach in Normandy and rescued as many brave ‘boys’ as he could as they drove Hitler’s army out of France and into Belgium to the Ardennes Forest to the Battle of the Bulge. Reco miraculously survived his service, returned to the states, and immediately married Enes on March 4, 1945.

Reco and Enes literally ‘marched forth’ on March 4th, out of the war and right into their blessed life in America, without missing a step. Reco rejoined his father, Pietro, in the family’s IGA grocery business, which soon expanded and relocated to become a Super Valu grocery store. Enes’ father quickly broke ground to build his youngest daughter and her new husband the first house in the Southlawn development of Ankeny. Bartolomeo built a home for each of his three daughters, in the evenings, after he worked days using only hand saws, hammers, a brace ‘n bit, a folding carpenter measure, a square, a plumb bob and a flat pencil over his ear. America’s ‘greatest generation’ stood so tall because they stood on the shoulders of their brave and hardworking immigrant parents’ generation who exemplified and demonstrated strong character, beliefs, ethics, principles and hard work.

Enes and Reco raised two children, Peter A. Logli and Denise Logli, in their Ankeny home from the 1940s through the 1960s. They all attended and were members of the First United Methodist Church in Ankeny. Enes was a choir member and leader there, along with organist, Evelyn Rigby. Enes was also concurrently a soloist at University Christian Church near Drake and also at Central Presbyterian Church on Grand Avenue, where Mable Moss Madden, her former voice teacher, was the organist and where she and Reco were married.

As their children grew, Enes returned to Drake to complete and receive her Music Degree in 1964. She was a member of the musical society, Pi Kappa Lambda. Enes taught Elementary Music for three years in Altoona, Mitchellville and Runnells in the SEP school district from 1964-1966. She then became the Ankeny High School Chorus, Choir and Music teacher from 1966-1968. She took a leave of absence to care for her husband, Reco, who had a heart attack and required surgery in Iowa City. He did not survive his heart surgery and tragically died in June of 1969 when he was only 55 and Enes was 48. That summer Ankeny principal, Robert S Gray, offered Enes a job, teaching sixth grade Math at Northwest Elementary in Ankeny. She accepted the offer and immediately began taking summer and night classes at Drake, as she taught, to obtain a Master’s degree in Education and Administration in 1972, so she could continue teaching academics rather than music. She loved teaching sixth grade Math until 1982. She focused on being a fair and positive advocate and friend to her students, not just their math teacher. It was at Northwest Elementary that Enes met her lifelong very best friend, Elaine Baley Smith. Enes also did office work at DMACC for several years after she retired from teaching at the Downtown and Ankeny campuses.

Enes was an avid and voracious reader since childhood. She often checked six thick books out of the library and returned them before they were due, having read every page, chapter and book. She accepted invitations to serve many years as Secretary & President of Ankeny’s new Kirkendall Library Board of Directors. Enes interviewed candidates to serve as the first full-time paid librarian. She hired young, beautiful, capable and dynamic, Myrna Anderson, from Mankato Minnesota, who served with finesse for many decades.

Above all, Enes was a very loving and devoted mother, teacher and friend. Like her mother, she was a wonderful cook and seamstress, enjoyed gardening, canning, baking, cooking, and homemaking. In her retirement, she enjoyed traveling the country for a few years with a marvelous friend and companion, Bryce Christianson. Enes was very proud of her grandchildren and enjoyed watching them grow into exceptional adults. She worked crossword puzzles (in pen), watched ice skating, and enjoyed listening to Josh Groban and Andrea Bocelli. She also enjoyed four years of BSF Bible Study, met many wonderful ladies and memorized many scriptures. The God she always knew, honored, and respected became her friend and His son became her Savior, as she studied both old and new testaments. She sang Ave Maria and The Lord’s Prayer like an angel hundreds of times in her 100 years. Now she is singing with the angels in Heaven. For Thine is the Kingdom, and the Power, and the Glory, Forever. Amen.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Bartolomeo and Lucia Linari; husband, Reco; two sisters, Olga Sassatelli and Alda Sassatelli; and two daughters-in-law, Teri Davis and Kathy Allen Logli.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to the Ankeny Area Historical Society, PO Box 1111, Ankeny, IA 50021.

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