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AUDREY A. BOCHMANN
AREDALE - Audrey A. Bochmann, 82, of Aredale, died Thursday (Oct. 7, 1999) at the Sheffield Care Center, Sheffield.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Aredale United Methodist Church, Aredale, with the Rev. Robert Connor and the Rev. Patricia Connor officiating. Interment will be in the Dumont Cemetery , Dumont.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the Sietsema-Vogel Funeral Home in Dumont.
Audrey A. Bochmann was born Feb. 25, 1917, in Bristow, the daughter of John and Anna (McLaughlin) McWilliams. She was a graduate of Aredale High School and received a teaching certificate from Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls.
She was united in marriage to Floyd Bochmann on June 19, 1938, in Aredale. She was a teacher and a homemaker.
Audrey was a member of the Aredale United Methodist Church.
Audrey was president of the Iowa Conference Women's Society of World Service, E.U.B. Church, 1965-1969, treasurer from 1955-1960. She spent 20 years promoting the sale of Third World handicrafts through the SERV organization (volunteer).
She is survived by her husband, Floyd Bochmann, of Aredale; daughter, Avis, and her husband, Adriel Thrash, of Euclid, Ohio; son, Max, and his wife, Christine Bochmann, of Naperville, Ill.; daughter, Belva, and her husband, Greg Sheriff, of Dougherty; granddaughter, Wendy Martens, of North Canton, Ohio; grandson, Todd Thrash, of Rochester, N.Y.; grandson, Adam Bochmann, of Lyle, Ill.; granddaughter, Holly Sheriff, of Des Moines; granddaughter, Rachel Sheriff, of Mason City; and grandson, Collin Sheriff, of Dougherty.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers and four sisters.
RUBY H. HODGIN
MASON CITY - Ruby H. Hodgin, 89, of 1102 N. Hampshire Ave., died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.
Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, at the First Baptist Church, 125 E. State St., with the Rev. Ron Stein officiating. There will be a private interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
There will be no visitation as her wish was to be cremated.
Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., is in charge of arrangements.
Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (515) 423-0924.
MILTON E. WAMSTAD
NORA SPRINGS - Milton E. Wamstad, 83, of 1209 Mitchell Line St., died Thursday (Oct. 7, 1999) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 North Hawkeye St., Nora Springs - (515) 749-2210.
SIDNEY WUBBEN
Thompson - Sidney Wubben, 57, died Tuesday (Oct. 5, 1999) at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minn.
A memorial service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at United Methodist Church in Thompson, with the Rev. Wendy Trone officiating. Final memorialization of the cremains will be at Olena Mound Cemetery , Buffalo Center.
Visitation will be from 4:30 to 7 p.m. today at Winter Funeral Home, 245 Harrison St., Thompson.
Winter Funeral Home - (515) 584-2520
LAVONNE M. POST
ALGONA - LaVonne M. Post, 82, died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at Kossuth Regional Health Center, Algona.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Cecelia Catholic Church, Algona. Burial will be in East Lawn Cemetery , Algona.
Visitation will be from 2:30 to 8 p.m. today at Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaaf Funeral Home, Algona. A rosary lead by the Catholic Daughters of the Americas will begin at 3 p.m. and a parish prayer service at 7 p.m. at the funeral home.
ANNA TURNER WIEDMANN
STORY CITY - Anna Turner Wiedmann, 20, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1999 at 210 Maclain House (dormitory at the University of Chicago). Chicago, Ill.
Funeral services were held Monday, Oct. 4, at 10:30 a.m. at Immanuel Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Tom Hunt and Father John Kruse officiating. Burial will be in Story City Cemetery.
Visitation was from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, at Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home, Story City, with the family present.
Anna Turner Wiedmann was born Sept. 25, 1979, in Ames, daughter of J. Michael and Susan (Turner) Wiedmann. She was a resident of the Story City area all of her life and was a 1998 graduate of Roland-Story High School.
Anna was a student at the University of Chicago.
She is survived by her parents, Mike and Sue Wiedmann, Story City; grandparents, Bill Wiemann, West Des Moines, and Bill and Jan Turner, Mason City.
Anna was preceded in death by her grandmother.
Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home, Story City - (515) 733-4334
OTHMAR M. BLAKE
STACYVILLE - Othmar M. Blake, 73, died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Visitation Catholic Church in Stacyville, with the Rev. Joseph Schneider officiating. Interment will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery
in Meyer.
Visitation will start at 2:30 p.m. today in the Visitation Church Hall with a Catholic Order of Foresters rosary at 3 p.m., a scripture service at 7:30 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 8 p.m. The Champion Funeral Home, Osage, is in charge of arrangements.
Othmar was born March 15, 1926, near Meyer, in Mitchell County, the son of Carl and Mary (Durben) Blake. He grew up in the Meyer area, graduating from Visitation Catholic High School in Stacyville in 1945.
On Oct 21, 1947, Othmar married Gladys Smith at Johnsburg, Minn. They farmed in the Stacyville area for many years.
Othmar was a former choir director at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Meyer. He also worked for Klapperich Farm Systems and as the Visitation School custodian.
Othmar was a charter member of the Forty-Milers Barbershop Chorus. He was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Catholic Order of Foresters. He was an avid sports fan, enjoying his children's and grandchildren's sporting events.
Othmar is survived by his wife, Gladys Blake, of Stacyville; six sons, Tom Blake and his wife, Joan, of St. Ansgar, Dean Blake, of Mason City, John Blake and his wife, Mary, of Cottonwood, Minn., Dan Blake and his wife, Sue, of Stacyville, David Blake and his wife, Kathy, of Osage, and Tim Blake and his wife, Kathie, of Osage; two daughters, Jean Hemann and her husband, Denny, Osage, and Janet Chapman and her husband, Jeff, Marshall, Minn.; one brother, Gene Blake and his wife, Mildred, of Adams, Minn.; one sister, Vera Adams and her husband, Jim, Stacyville; 18 grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and five step-great-grandchildren.
Othmar was preceded in death by his parents and a daughter, Ruth Ann.
Champion Funeral Home - (515) 732-3706.
KENNETH NEUHAUS
ROCKFORD - Kenneth Neuhaus, 58, of 210 Second St. S.E., died Thursday (Oct. 7, 1999).
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Fullerton Schumburg Funeral Home, 302 W. Main St., Rockford - (515) 423-8676.
REV. EDMUND M. MUELLER
MASON CITY - The Rev. Edmund M. Mueller, 103, died Wednesday (Oct. 6, 1999) at Good Shepherd Health Care Center, Mason City.
A funeral service will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at Salem Lutheran Church, Parkston, S. D. Burial will be in Grace Hill Cemetery , Tripp, S. D.
Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City, is in charge of arrangements.
Edmund M. Mueller was born Sept. 17, 1896, to August and Wilhelmina nee Schulz Mueller on a farm near Parkston, S. D. When he was about nine years old, he moved with his family to the Kulm community also near Parkston. He was the fifth of 11 children born in his family. He remained and farmed in the area and did carpentry until he decided to become a pastor.
In his early twenties, he went to Wartburg Academy and College in Waverly, to prepare to enter Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque. He graduated from the seminary in 1924 and was ordained into the ministry at Salem Lutheran Church, Parkston, S. D., in June 1924. His first congregation was Salem Lutheran, Jackson, Minn.
The following August 10, he married Martha Pietz in Salem Lutheran in Parkston. During his ministry, he served congregations in Jackson, Welcome and Gaylord, Minn., St. Francis, Kan., and Kellogg-Elk Creek, Iowa.
In 1946 he and his wife established the Good Shepherd Home in Mason City, formerly called the Good Samaritan Home, and continued that work until his retirement at age 66.
During the Mason City years, he also worked with many communities in Iowa,
Minnesota, Washington and Oklahoma in establishing many other Good Samaritan Homes for the Evangelical Good Samaritan Society. After his retirement they moved to Minneapolis. They did not spend a lot of time there because he spent the next nine years serving as interim pastor at various congregations in Nebraska,
Minnesota and South Dakota.
They moved back to Good Shepherd in 1979 after Martha suffered a disabling stroke. He helped care for her at the home until her death in 1987. He continued to be cared for in the home until his death.
Edmund and Martha were the parents of four children, Dennis, twins Norbert and Gilbert, and Gwenn. His work and family were always a high priority for him. He had 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
Those who mourn his death include his daughter-in-law, Bulalia Mueller, Hastings, Neb.; sons, Norbert and Dorothy, Jackson, Michigan, Gilbert and Fayth, Yukon, Okla.; daughter, Gwenn and Ron Cherry, St. Paul, Minn.; plus grandchildren and their families.
Those preceding him in death included his parents; his wife, Martha; 10 brothers and sisters; one son, Pastor Dennis Mueller; and two grandchildren.
He spent his productive life loving, serving and giving of himself to family, church and others.
Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel - (515) 423-2372.
