TESSMER, MARIE GERTRUDE nee Schuldt (1922-2013)

TESSMER, SCHULDT, SCHMAEDEKE, COINER, SCHLATTER, BASSLER

Posted By: Linda Hagedorn Finley (email)
Date: 10/15/2013 at 13:42:51

Source: WCFCourier.com - May 28, 2013
CLERMONT — Marie Gertrude Tessmer, 91, of Clermont, died Sunday, May 26, at Good Samaritan Home, Postville.

She was born Jan. 16, 1922, in Readlyn, daughter of Heinrich and Martha Schmaedeke Schuldt. She married Dean F. Tessmer on May 12, 1941, at St. John Lutheran Church, Sumner. He died Sept. 19, 1999.

She graduated from Sumner High School in 1939 and received business training in Waterloo after high school. The couple farmed in several areas, and Mrs. Tessmer also was a homemaker and a dollmaker.

Survived by: a daughter, Sally (Russell) Schlatter of Arlington Heights, Ill.; three sons, Butch (Jeanne) of Elgin, Michael (Gloria) of Onalaska, Wis., and Jay of Clermont; eleven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; a sister, Cecilia Bassler of Waterloo; and three sisters-in-law, Bernice Tessmer of Tripoli, Della Reiser of Fredericksburg and Mille Tessmer of Campbell, Minn.

Preceded in death by: a daughter, Dr. Susan Tessmer Coiner; three brothers, Vern, Henry and Albert Schuldt; and a sister, Renetta Egbert.

Services: 11:00 a.m. Thursday at Becker-Milnes Funeral Home, Hawkeye, with burial in Alpha Cemetery. Visitation from 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesday and for an hour before services Thursday, both at the funeral home.

Memorials: may be directed to the Alpha Cemetery lawn care fund, in care of Garry Tubbs, 24954 Johnsons Mill Rd., Alpha, 52171. Condolences may be left at www.beckermilnesrettig.com.

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