1957-2025
Jeanine Rae (Stanley) Chaloupka, 67, of Yale, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, at Iowa Methodist Hospital in downtown Des Moines. A service is being planned by the family for a later date.
Jeanine was born Oct. 23, 1957, in Herndon, the daughter of Arthur and Eleanor (Moore) Stanley. She was their only daughter and has two brothers, Dean and Mark.
Jeanine married her husband, Randy, in 1980 and they had a son, Samuel, in 1984. Jeanine was a hard worker and had many jobs while growing up, such as walking soybeans and detasseling seed corn, as well as helping at home. She was also active in high school activities such as NHS and lettered as a cheerleader.
Following high school, Jeanine entered DMACC in Ankeny to study bookkeeping and accounting. Following her graduation, she was employed at WIESE Corporation in Perry. After several years of employment there, she took a short break to start a family and help her husband with crop farming and raising cattle. When her son was a toddler, she went back to work at Farmers State Bank of Yale and a law firm in Guthrie Center. Health problems forced her into retirement in later years.
Jeanine was proceeded in death by her parents, Arthur and Eleanor. She is survived by her husband, Randy; her son, Samuel, and his wife, Jennifer; four grandchildren; and her brothers, Dean of Panora and Mark in Washington state.