Kurtzhals, Linda I. (1945-2013)

KURTZHALS, WELTY, COPENHAVER, HAMMEN, MILLER, MULDER, BEITELSPACHER

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 4/13/2013 at 16:13:58

Linda I. Kurtzhals
May 9, 1945 - March 26, 2013

Linda I. Kurtzhals, age 67, of Sioux City, passed away on March 26, 2013, at a local hospital.

A thirty year survivor, Linda had reoccurring battles with breast and uterine cancer as well as with MDS and Leukemia.

Linda was born on May 9, 1945, in Sioux City, to Edwin and Irene (Copenhaver) Welty. Raised in the Climbing Hill and Moville area, she graduated from Woodbury Central High School in 1963.

On Sept 25, 1965, she married Al Kurtzhals at the Cathedral of the Epiphany in Sioux City. Following their marriage, they moved to LeMars. Then, in 1972, the family moved to Alta where they resided until 1985. They later moved to Mesa, Arizona, where they lived from 1985 to 2003 before returning to Sioux City where they had resided ever since.

Linda loved her dogs, Tasha and Levi, and her horses, Penny, Ginger, and Prince. She also enjoyed shopping, traveling, and camping in that order as well as spending time with her family and friends. She will be remembered as a classy, strong, spunky, dedicated wife, mother, and friend who lit up a room.

Survivors include her husband, Al, of Sioux City; her daughter, Shelly, and her husband, Barry Hammen, of Storm Lake; her son, Chris Kurtzhals, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; three grandchildren: Michael and Megan Hammen, of Storm Lake, and Dietrich Kurtzhals, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; her mother, Irene Welty, of Sioux City; her sisters- and brothers-in-law, Alrene Miller, of Olatha, Kansas, Roseann and Harry Mulder, of Orange City, and Doris and Ed Beitelspacher, of LeMars; as well as many aunts, uncles, and cousins. Proceeding her in death were her father, Edwin Welty, her in-laws, Albert and Ella (Kounkel) Kurtzhals; her grandparents, Orval and Jennie Copenhaver, and her special friends, Cindy Molgaard and Larry and Mary Felows, of Alta.

Funeral services will be on Saturday, March 30, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. at the Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel in Sioux City.

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