Dandy, Ella (1907-2011)

DANDY, PETERS, GOETTSCH, LANGNER, AAMODT

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 8/6/2011 at 14:57:30

Ella Dandy
July 28, 1907 - July 30, 2011

Schaller, Iowa

Ella Dandy, age 104, of Schaller, Iowa, entered eternity through her always open window at 11:06 p.m. on July 30, 2011, at the Holstein Good Samaritan Center where she had resided since March of 2009.

Ella Peters was born near Hanover on July 28, 1907, the sixth of twelve children born to John and Anna Peters. Ella was baptized, confirmed and married at St. John's Lutheran Church in Hanover. After Ella married Edgar Dandy on January 29, 1930, they spent most of their married life in Schaller where Edgar was in the lumber business. There, they raised three children: Eugene, Kathleen, and Darrold. Ella, who began sewing for family and friends when she was eight years old, became an accomplished seamstress. For more than fifty years, she operated a sewing business out of her home. She was particularly proud of the times when she designed and made wedding dresses and graduation gowns based on a client’s picture or drawing.

She loved to garden, growing flowers and vegetables and sharing the bounty with friends and neighbors. When she turned ninety-five years old, she decided to give up gardening. However, she continued to grow tomatoes and other salad vegetables in containers on her patio and driveway until she moved to the nursing home.

Playing cards was another of Ella’s lifelong pleasures. At times, Ella belonged to as many as five card clubs at the same time. She played mostly bridge and 500 but was always willing to play Canasta with her family on Sunday afternoons. She played solitaire nearly every day after meals and continued this regimen throughout her life.

Ella was always surrounded by books. Most evenings, she would curl up in her favorite chair and read until falling asleep. Failing eye sight forced her to seek big print books and finally to use a magnifying glass, but Ella always had a book to occupy her evenings.

Ella and her husband were active members of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Schaller. She was a long-time member of the church’s Ladies Aid, and she devotedly taught Sunday School for over twenty-five years.

Those left to cherish her memory include two of her children: Kathleen Goettsch, of Holstein, Iowa, and Darrold Dandy, and his wife, Carol, of Annandale, Virginia; four grandsons: Kirby Goettsch, and his wife, Trish, of Aberdeen, South Dakota, Kirk Goettsch, and his wife, Ellen, of Omaha, Nebraska, Kevin Dandy, of Washington, D.C., and Matthew Dandy, of Baltimore, Maryland; ten great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren. Also surviving Ella are one sister, Ruth Langner, of Storm Lake; a brother-in-law and two sisters-in-law, Lincoln Dandy, and his wife, Gloria, of Sioux Rapids, and Edna Aamodt, of Prescott, Wisconsin. Ella will be dearly missed by her relatives and friends.

Ella was preceded in death by her parents, ten brothers and sisters, her husband in 2005, her son, Eugene, in 1998, and her son-in-law, Loren “Doc” Goettsch, in 2010.

Visitation: 5-8:00 p.m. August 02, 2011, at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Schaller, Iowa.
Funeral Service: 1:30 p.m. August 03, 2011, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Schaller, Iowa.
Interment: August 03, 2011, at the Schaller Cemetery in Schaller, Iowa.

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