Makayla Burgmaier

Makayla Burgmaier, 21, of Creston entered her Heavenly home Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021, at Select Specialty Hospital within Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. A Celebration of Life service will be held 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021, at Powers Funeral Home, 601 New York Ave. in Creston, with Pastor William Richardson officiating. The family requests masks and will be following social distancing protocol.

Burial will follow in Hill of Zion Cemetery east of Orient. Open visitation will be 2 to 7 p.m. Friday at Powers Funeral Home in Creston. The family will not be present at the visitation.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to either Special Olympics or the Afton Assembly of God Church. The livestream can be viewed and condolences shared at www.powersfh.com.

Makayla Ann Burgmaier, daughter of Glenn David Burgmaier and Linda Ann (Green) Burgmaier, was born Jan. 21, 1999, in Des Moines. She graduated from Creston Community High School in 2018.

Following graduation Makayla worked for Innovative Industries for a year. Makayla was active in Special Olympics and was an attendee of the Afton Assembly of God Church.

Survivors include her father Glenn (Tammy) Burgmaier of Creston; her twin brother Dakota (girlfriend Cheyenne Parsons) Burgmaier of Creston; three half-brothers, Brandon Garner and Roger Garner of Creston and Derek (Amber) Fluckey of Afton; half-sister Brandi (Tony) Atkins of Creston; step-sister Heidi Brown of Creston; step-brother Cody (Sarah) Hudson of West Des Moines; grandmother Pat Green of Osceola; step-grandparents Margaret Burgmaier of Winterset and Ed Hanson of Creston; three aunts: Bonnie Olson of Rio, Wisconsin, Carla (Jerry) Couchman of Weldon and Julie (boyfriend Sandy Heidemann) LaFollette of Clive; uncles: Lonnie (Diane) Burgmaier of Creston, Don Burgmaier of Des Moines and Gayle (Beth) Burgmaier of Creston and many cousins, nieces, and nephews and extended family.

Makayla was preceded in death by her mother Linda Green, her grandparents Dwight Green and Ernest and Vivian Burgmaier. Makayla will be remembered as the joy of her father’s life with her beautiful smile and her love for others. She “shall mount up with wings as eagles;… run, and not be weary; ...walk, and not faint.”

—Isaiah 40:31