Raeann Fiedler Lenzini

Raeann Fiedler Lenzini, age 88, passed away in Columbia, Missouri, on Thursday, August 7, 2025, from complications related to end-stage kidney disease.
Raeann was born March 9, 1937, to Bernard Marvin Fiedler and Thelma Beatrice Holman Fiedler in Los Angeles, California. The family moved from Los Angeles back to Bevier, Missouri, in 1938, and later moved to Macon, Missouri. Raeann attended Macon Public Schools in Macon, Missouri, and graduated from Macon High School in 1955. She enjoyed being a part of the Macon Tigers marching band and loved being a Girl Scout, staying active in scouting well into adulthood as a troop leader and a den mother for Boy Scouts. She became a member of the First Christian Church, Disciples of Christ, in Macon, Missouri, in childhood. She adored her church friends, many of whom were like family.
After high school, Raeann began her career with the Macon County Division of Welfare as a stenographer in 1955. In 1956, she became a caseworker, a position she truly loved.
Raeann was united in marriage to Ronald Lloyd Lenzini at the (old) First Christian Church in Macon, Missouri, on May 11, 1956. When Ron joined the Missouri State Highway Patrol In October, 1958, he was assigned to the Brookfield, Missouri, zone of Troop B, so the couple moved to Brookfield, where they lived until 1966, when he was reassigned to Macon, Missouri. The couple lived in Macon until Ron's passing November 5, 2021, when Raeann moved to Columbia to be closer to her daughter and son-in-law.
Raeann enjoyed being a mother and was active in her children's activities including little league baseball and junior golf. She was the secretary for the Macon Country Club board of directors for many years. She was a life-long collector, buyer, and seller of antiques. She and Mary Smith Croarkin started an antique a shop in Macon called "Yesterday's Yen Shoppe" in the front of the building that housed Martin Vending, owned by Mary's husband Ikie. Raeann traveled the United States buying and selling quilts, and she started her own business called "The Country Mouse" to deal in antiques and hand-made textile arts and crafts. Raeann's work appears in and she won numerous awards for her original designs and the quilts she created. She also taught textiles and manual arts for the Vocational Technical School's adult education program in Macon, Missouri, for many years. She was a dealer at the Ice Chalet Antique Mall and also The Marketplace in Columbia, Missouri, for over a decade.
She enjoyed her membership in the Booneslick Trail Quilter's Guild of Columbia, Missouri, and her quilting circle at the First Christian Church in Macon, Missouri. She also enjoyed traveling, reading, watching Mizzou football and basketball, and of course cheering on her beloved Kansas City Chiefs. Raeann was an avid and thorough genealogist, spending many hours poring over records and visiting cemeteries, attempting to solve the many mysteries of the Fiedler and Holman families, as well as the Magruder Mayes family, which unfortunately still remains unclear. She delighted in her daughter's discoveries of the Lenzini-Danti family in Italy and the mysteries she solved. Family was Raeann's first priority, including her Highway Patrol family, her church family, her quilting friends, her Beta Sigma Phi sorority friends, her fellow March birthday group of ladies called the March Hares, and her new friends who became like family in her last four years at the Villages of Bedford Walk in Columbia, Missouri.
Raeann Fiedler Lenzini was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Ronald Lenzini on November 5, 2021, and son Russell Raymond Lenzini on December 1, 2010. One brother, William Lewis Fiedler (Mary Williams Fiedler) preceded her in death on March 14, 2009, as did her brother-in-law, Robert Lloyd Berti (Gerry Fiedler Berti), on April 22, 2021. Raeann is survived by her daughter Ronda Lenzini and her husband Michael Reno of Columbia, Missouri, sister Gerry Fiedler Berti of Bevier, Missouri, and sister-in-law Mary Williams Fielder of Macon, Missouri, as well as numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and other extended family.
As per Raeann's and Ron's wishes, there will be no services. Private inurnment will be held at a later date. The family wishes any memorials to be sent to Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia, 1307 West Broadway, Columbia, MO 65203. Memorials may be submitted online via their website. Cremation care provided by Heartland Cremation & Burial Society of Columbia, Missouri.