Daryl H. Kline

Daryl Kline, 81, of Afton, died Thursday, November 6, 2025, at University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City.
Celebration of Life Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, November 14, 2025,
at Powers Funeral Home in Creston.
Pastor Jodi Rushing will officiate. Services will be livestreamed.
Burial will be at Evergreen Cemetery (Jerusalem) northeast of Creston.
Open visitation will 2-7:00 p.m. Thursday, with family receiving friends 5-7:00 p.m.
at Powers Funeral Home in Creston.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are to the family to be determined later.
Online condolences can be left at www.powersfh.com.
Daryl Hartley Kline was born March 20, 1944, in Oakland, California to Florence Irene (Hartley) Miler and Daryl Burr Miler. After his father's passing in 1945, he was raised by his mother, Irene, and adoptive father, Paul John Kline. Daryl attended East Union High School and graduated with the class of 1962. He then went on to study at Creston Community College, earning an associate's degree in 1964. In 1966, he graduated from Northwest Missouri State College with an accounting degree.
On July 18, 1965, Daryl was united in marriage to Karen Mae Schrader in Creston, Iowa. From this union came two sons, Ken and Shawn. Daryl first began working at Walnut Grove Feeds in 1966 until 1974. He owned and operated Rafter K Farms, and ran his own tax services for over 35 years.
Daryl's passion was farming – he raised cattle and hogs and grew corn, soybeans, and hay. He spent any free time he had restoring antique John Deere tractors and collecting them as toys. He also enjoyed watching Western movies and listening to classic Country music. As a youth, he was active in 4-H. Later, he was in Union County Farm Bureau where he served as Secretary and also was on the Board of Directors of Greater Community Hospital from 1983-1994. He was a member of the Jerusalem United Methodist Church and served as lay-leader for several years, always opening the service with a joke.
Fond family memories include Sunday afternoon motorcycle rides; family games of Tag on summer evenings and Fox-and-Goose on snowy winter weekends; holiday dinners and farming experiences with his older grandkids (when repairing machinery, he always held up his grease-gun and asked if they wanted a bite to eat!); and hide and seek/tag in his office, keeping the go-kart running, and Christmas trips to New York with his younger grandkids. Also, as everyone who talked to him knew, there wasn't a short story that he couldn't make long (or really, really long)! He loved the West, and adventured through Wyoming and Montana during the last two Summers.
Survivors include his wife Karen Kline of Afton; his sons, Ken (Julie) Kline of Creston, and Shawn (Janine) Kline of Larchmont, NY; 4 grandchildren, Bradley (Staci) Kline, Brent (Ashton) Kline, Connor Kline, and Cassidy Kline; 5 great-grandchildren, Elli, Cecilia, Kensli, Maggie and Gavin Kline; 3 brothers, Steve (Pat) Kline, Alan (Linda) Kline and Richard (Tammy) Kline; 4 sisters-in-law, Janice (John) Peppmeier, Patricia (Jim) Campbell, Cheri Schrader and Shellie Mayne; along with many nieces, nephews and other extended family.
Daryl was preceded in death by his parents, Irene and Paul Kline and Daryl Miler; grandparents, Eva and Harry Hartley, John and Bertha Kline and Leota and Burr Miler; and two brothers-in-law, Roger Schrader and Virgil Schrader in infancy.
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