Pat Eyler

Patricia "Pat" Eyler, 64, of Carson, IA, passed away on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 at the Josie Harper Hospice House in Omaha, NE. Private family funeral will be 10:30 a.m. on Monday, April 20, 2020 at the Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson with Rev. Dan Siepker, officiating. Burial will be in the Carson Cemetery in Carson, IA. There will be an open visitation held for the public from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, 2020 at the Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson. Loess Hills Funeral Home in Carson is caring for Pat and her family.

The funeral can be viewed online live on Monday, April 20, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. on our Facebook page. Loess Hills Funeral Home

Memorials may be directed to the family where they will be given to charities in honor of Pat.

* The funeral home will follow state and federal guidelines for COVID-19 and we will only be allowed to have 10 people in the funeral home at one. We respectfully ask if you have or are experiencing cold, flu or allergy-like symptoms that you not attend the visitation. Instead, please consider a safer alternative by leaving an online message to the family on her tribute page, sending a card to the family, or calling the funeral home so we may sign your name to the guest registry book.

Patricia Joan Nehe Eyler was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa on February 25, 1956 to Eugene F. and Margaret Ann Connelly Nehe. She was the youngest of five children. Pat graduated from Oakland High School in 1974. After high school she attended Northwest Missouri State University to study Elementary Education. After graduating in 1978, Pat returned to Oakland to teach elementary school where she remained for her entire career.
On August 9th of 1980 Patricia was married to David Eric Eyler. To this union they were blessed with three children: Daniel Eric in 1985, John Joseph in 1986, and Emily Elizabeth in 1991. Pat continued teaching in the first, second, and third grades for thirty three years, retiring from Riverside Elementary in 2011. After retirement she kept busy at home helping on the family farm.
Pat is preceded in death by her parents Margaret and Eugene; stepfather Leland Harbour; and father-in-law Donald Eyler.
Pat is survived by her husband of nearly 40 years David; son Daniel of Creston, IA; son John and girlfriend Jenn Wilson of Oakland, IA; daughter Emily Eyler and wife Kelsi of Audubon, IA; brother Bob Nehe and wife Miriam of Omaha, NE; sisters, Nancy Lyman and her husband Dennis of Oakland, IA, Mary Jane Chamberlain and her husband Jim of Omaha, NE; Jeanne Archer and her husband Len of St. Joseph, MO; mother-in-law, Doris Eyler of Council Bluffs, IA; sister-in-law, Deriece "Dee" Ward and her husband Jerry of Waverly, NE; numerous nieces and nephews, as well as many friends.
Pat enjoyed reading in her spare time and singing at church. What brought her the most joy in life was spending time with family and being around children every day during her long teaching career.