Elizabeth Reid Terrones, age 94, of Washington, passed away Thursday, March 28, 2019 at the United Presbyterian Home.

Celebration of life services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church where the family will receive friends from 9:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Interment will take place at a later date in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Memorials have been established for the Immanuel Lutheran Church and Hospice of Washington County. Online condolences may be sent for Elizabeth's family through the web at www.jonesfh.com

Elizabeth was born January 1, 1925 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to Herbert and Emily (McNaughton) Brown. She was educated in Northern Ireland and at the University of Northern Iowa. During WWII she had the responsibility of air raid shelter warden, a very important position for a 14 year old. Elizabeth married her first husband, James Buren, an American GI, in Belfast on August 12, 1942. She traveled to the USA 3 years later in a convoy of Danish war ships, being stalked by German U-Boats all the way across the Atlantic. Elizabeth later married Joseph Terrones in Galena, Illinois on August 11, 1983.

Elizabeth's love of children led her on a career path to work with special needs children beginning in 1964 until her retirement in 2001. She continued to work in the Washington Community Schools as a substitute para educator until her 80th birthday. Elizabeth was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church, Amvets and the British War Brides Club. In her spare time she loved to knit, crochet, work for the Democratic Party, and write letters to politicians and Queen Elizabeth. True to her upbringing, Elizabeth never met a stranger. If you were honored to be loved by her you were not just loved; you were loved fiercely and you knew you were her favorite.

She is survived by her daughter, Kathleen Fischer and husband Gary of Washington, IA; grandson, Bret Charles Thompson and wife Lyn of Clarion, IA; step-grandchildren: Stacee Fischer Gehring and husband Jeff of Muncie, IN and Ryan Allen Fischer and wife Bobbi of Brownsburg, IN; great-grandchildren: Anna, Evie, Carys, Lucille, Bonnie, Jessica and Jason; great-great-grandsons: Owen, Emmett and Aiden; sisters: Isobel Savage of Belfast, Northern Ireland and Kathleen Williams of Miller, Australia; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, James Buren; husband, Joseph Terrones; son, James Herbert Buren; great-granddaughter, Trinity Gehring; brothers: Norman, Herbert and Joseph Brown; sisters: Emily Wach and Hilda Graham; and her very loved Shih Tzu, Fergie.