Tamara Ballinger
I miss you forever grandma Lavone❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Birth date: Jun 19, 1914 Death date: Mar 25, 2021
Lavone Margie (Zimmerly) Barkowski passed away on March 21, 2021 in Houston, TX just 3 months shy of her 107th birthday. “Lonnie” was born on June 19, 1914 in Buchanan County, Iowa, the daughter of Robert A. and Daisy (Harkey) Zim Read Obituary
I miss you forever grandma Lavone❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I am Tamara Lavone Ballinger, I was named after my grandma Lavone. She also had another granddaughter, Penny Barkowski. Penny Barkowski was her son’s daughter, I was his stepdaughter. Although I was named after her. Penny Barkowski had a son named Travis, and two grandsons. Me and grandma started talking several years before she passed, she was a beautiful woman inside and out. Her granddaughter Penny passed away in 2011, so now grandma is with her. I’ll never forget how grandma told me that she went out and mowed her grass at the age 103. That’s Crazy! She was full of spunk. When grandma died, everything went so fast. I miss the long talks that we had, I love you, grandma Lavonne, rest in peace.