Jenny Lynne Lyster

Jenny L. Lyster
Paullina, Iowa
Joint Services for Sarah L. Austin, age 63, of Paullina and her sister, Jenny Lyster who both passed away on Saturday, January 22, 2022. Their funeral services will be at 1:00 P.M. Thursday, January 27, 2022, at the Church of Christ in Primghar with Pastor Mike Cooper ~ officiating.
Burial for Sarah will be at Waterman Cemetery in Sutherland.
Visitation with family present will be from 5 – 7 P.M. on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at the Eldridge Family Funeral Home in Primghar.



Jenny Lynne Austin Lyster, 66, late of Sutherland, Iowa, passed away January 22, 2022 after a private but prolonged battle with cancer.


She was born to James and Evelyn (Hintz) Austin on the 25th of April, 1955, on the day the light bill was due. She was the fifth born of the six children in the family. She grew up on the Austin Century Farm in the Little Sioux River Valley at the foot of Austin Hill between Sutherland and Peterson.


She attended Sutherland Community Schools and graduated in 1973. She was married to Bill Lyster of Linn Grove and to this union, one son, Joshua James, was born. The family made their home in Albert City. Jenny subsequently moved on to the Ames area and several locations in mid and central Iowa.


Left to cherish her memory are her son, Joshua James, and his two children; One sister, Jane of Sutherland with her husband, Don; Favorite nieces Gloria, Kimberly (Greg), Elizabeth, and Ashley (Gary); Favorite nephews Richard, Alex, Chris and Paul and their families; many cousins, other extended family members and cherished friends.


Others preceding her in death include her parents, an infant sister, Patricia Ann in 1950, a brother Kenny King in May, 1982, sister Karen King Vernon in December, 1982, and a sister, Sarah Lee Austin, who died only moments before she did on January 22, 2022; all her aunts and uncles, beside other relatives.