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Joe is a 2005 graduate of Humboldt High School, a 2007 graduate of Kirkwood Community College and a 2010 graduate of the Des Moines Area Community College of Mortuary Science. Joe became a Licensed Funeral Director in 2011.
Joe is a proud member of the Ames Noon Rotary Club and the Main Street Cultural District, serving on the business improvement committee. In his free time Joe enjoys spending time with family and friends.
Joe is married to Katie (Christensen) Reimers, who is also from Humboldt. They have a four childen Ivy, Scout and twins, Tripp and Olive.
Lyle joined the team at Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel as a Licensed Funeral Director in 2020. He says he became interested in the funeral industry at an early age.
"It was a profession that intrigued me as far back as when I was in junior high school," Lyle says. "I even tried to work at the funeral home when I was in school, but I was too young. I finally got an opportunity at the end of my freshman year of college and it confirmed that this is what I wanted to do."
Lyle is a native of Greenfield, Iowa. He graduated from Greenfield High School in 1988, then from Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge in 1990. In 1991, Lyle graduated from Kansas City Kansas Community College of Mortuary School. He worked for Peterson Funeral Home in Newton, Kansas, before moving to Osage, Iowa, in 1992. He started and completed his internship at the Champion Funeral Home in Osage, and then became a Licensed Funeral Director and worked there for more than 27 years before joining Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel. In addition to being a Licensed Funeral Director, Lyle is a certified Pre-need Sales Agent.
He appreciates the personal connection he gets to make in his work.
"Getting to meet the different families we serve and learning about the life of their loved one and the accomplishments they made is special," Lyle says. "We also get to learn about different customs and beliefs and that helps us to provide the best experience possible. It is satisfying to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of the families we serve."
Lyle is married to Stacey Jensen, who is originally from Coulter, Iowa. They have adult twin children, Caitlin and Tyler. Lyle and Stacey are huge Iowa State Cyclone fans and feel like living in Ames offers a little piece of Heaven in Iowa. In addition to rooting on the Cyclones, Lyle and Stacey enjoy spending time with family, traveling, and watching and rooting for the Las Vegas Raiders.
Matt joined the Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel team as a Licensed Funeral Director in 2018. His career in the industry started on a lawn mower.
"I started working for the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in 1994 when I was just 15 years old," Matt says of the facility in his hometown of Carroll, Iowa. "I was hired to mow the lawn, but quickly started doing other things around the funeral home. By the time I was 16, I started helping with visitations and funeral services. I loved the work and continued to work part-time at funeral homes in Carroll, Sac City, Des Moines and Kansas City before finally enrolling in mortuary school."
Matt was born in Lake City, Iowa and grew up in Carroll where he graduated from high school. Matt worked as a Critical Care Paramedic for many years before attending mortuary school at DMACC. He served his internship back where it all started: at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home. Matt says he loves his work.
"It is an honor to be able to walk families through the funeral process and know that they are trusting me with their loved one," he says. "I also enjoy building relationships with clergy and the community."
In addition to being a Licensed Funeral Director, Matt has special training as a Medicolegal Death Investigator and has worked in that capacity in Hamilton and Wright counties in the past. He also holds an insurance license and is endorsed to sell preneed funeral policies.
Matt has one daughter, Kayin. In his freetime, he loves to spend time outdoors on his motorcycle or in a boat on the lake. He loves living in central Iowa and serving the Ames and Boone communities.
With a long history of working with funeral directors after a three-decade career in the floral industry, Lisa joined Schoreder-Reimers Memorial Chapel in 2019. Lisa credits the integrity of founder Larry Schroeder and the way he worked with families with sparking her interest in working at the memorial chapel.
At Schoreder-Reimers Memorial Chapel, Lisa provides administrative support to the funeral directors. She says she is motivated by serving those in need during a difficult time.
"It means everything to me to be able to give comfort or a strength or just a shoulder to cry on," she says. "I know that I can make a difference and that is very satisfying. Those we serve are looking for direction and guidance at a time when their world is spinning. I know how much a kind word or a gentle gesture means."
Lisa has lived in and around Boone for her whole life. She attended school at United Community, Sacred Heart and Boone High School. She is married to husband, Kelly, has four children and two grandchildren.
Savannah grew up in Lake View, Iowa, where she graduated from East Sac County High School. She furthered her education with an Associate’s Degree from Hawkeye Community College and then graduated in 2017 from the DMACC Mortuary Science Program.
In July of 2018, Savannah became licensed in Iowa to assist families with prearranging and prefunding their funerals. As our full time Prearrangement Specialist, Savannah is available to offer information and education to families in all of our surrounding communities.
Savannah currently resides in Boone, Iowa with her husband, Jesse Preul, and their dogs Zeke and Ellie.
Larry was born and raised in Boone, where he passed on August 18, 2021.
He was a lifelong resident of the town, except for Mortuary College. Larry was a 1972 graduate of Boone High School and a 1974 graduate of DMACC Boone Campus. He graduated, Cum Laude, from the Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science, in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1975.
He began working with his father, Richard "Sonny" Schroeder and uncle, James Schroeder, at Schroeder Funeral Home in the fall of 1975. Larry opened Schroeder-Reimers Memorial Chapel, at Sixth and Marshall, in 1986, to continue three generations of the Schroeder family in funeral service in Boone and the surrounding areas, which, his grandfather, Harry W. Schroeder established in 1932.
Larry was married to Darcy (Pervier) Schroeder, also of Boone. They had one son, Timothy "Tim" Schroeder and wife Audra, and two grandchildren, Laural and Logan.
Larry was dedicated to the funeral profession, and enjoyed hunting, fishing, and being outdoors. He was a member of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Knights of Columbus and Boone Day-Breakers Kiwanis.
His contributions to Schroeder Memorial Chapel were many and continue to have an impact to this day. Read Larry's obituary here: https://www.schroedermemorialchapel.com/obituaries/Larry-A-Schroeder?obId=22071591