Frances (Curtin) Wellendorf - 1917-2001

CURTIN, GAVIN, WELLENDORF, ANDERSON, DUGGAN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 9/22/2011 at 21:28:20

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON STANDARD May 9, 2001
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Frances Wellendorf, 83, of Lansing, Iowa were held Wednesday, May 2, 2001 at Immaculate Conception Church in Lansing, Iowa under the direction of Father Daniel Knipper. Interment was in Gethsemane Cemetery in Lansing, Iowa. Casket bearers were her grandsons, Brian Wellendrof, Jeff Wellendorf, Mike Wellendorf, and nephews, James Anderson, Tom Duggan, and Don Duggan.

Francis Rita, daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Gavin) Curtin, was born October 18, 1917 in West Ridge Township, Allamakee County, Iowa. She graduated from Waukon High School. She married Bernard "Sonny" Harold Wellendorf on June 27, 1938 at West Ridge. The couple raised four children and were the owners of the Model Bakery in Lansing for many years.

Francis Rita Wellendorf died Monday, April 30, 2001 at Thornton Manor Care Center in Lansing, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard; her parents, one sister, Mary Curtin, one brother Howard Curtin and one grandson, dying in infancy.

Francis is survived by 3 sons, James (Patty) Wellendorf of Lansing, Iowa, Daniel Wellendorf of LaCrescent, Minnesota, and Robert Wellendorf of Lansing, Iowa; 1 daughter, Janann (Jim) Anderson of Shueyville, Iowa; 8 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren; and 1 sister, Harriet Duggan of Waukon, Iowa.