Theresa (Starman) Mayer

MAYER STARMAN STEFFES VENTEICHER PUDENZ VOLLSTEDT BRUCH SIBENALLER KASPERBAUER REES HALBUR SNYDER HANSEN SCHAFFER QUANDT

Posted By: Terry Hacker (email)
Date: 12/12/2009 at 17:50:49

From the Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Thursday, November 12, 2009, on line.

Obituaries

Theresa Mayer
Carroll

Mass of the Christian burial for Theresa Mayer, 86, of Carroll, will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, at Holy Spirit Church in Carroll. Father Timothy Johnson will officiate and will be assisted by Father Gary Snyder and Father John Gerald.

Mrs. Mayer died early Monday, Nov. 9, at St. Anthony Nursing Home in Carroll.

Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11. at Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll, where there will be a Christian wake service by Holy Spirit Parish at 6:30 p.m. The casket will be moved to the church at 8:30 a.m. Thursday to lie in state until the time of the funeral Mass.

Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery at Carroll.

Lectors for the Mass will be great-grandchildren: Kristen Vollstedt and T.J. Btuch. Petitions will be read by great-grandchildren: Alex Bruch, Nate Bruch and Austin Sibenaller. Gift bearers will be great-grandchildren: Chloe Venteicher, Colin Venteicher, Ava Venteicher, Grant Sibenaller, Logan Sibenaller, Emily Venteicher, Nic Venteicher and Caitlin Vollstedt. Mass servers will be great- grandchildren: Jacob Bruch, Ashley Sibenaller and Jared Vollstedt.
eucharistc minister will be a grandson-in-law, Steve Vollstedt.

Casket bearers will be grandchildren: Jill Buch, Janelle Vollstedt, Todd Venteicher, Jamie Venteicher, Wendy Sibenaller, Chris Venteicher, Pat Venteicher, Joey Pudenz and Andy Pudenz.

A daughter of Henry and Catherine (Steffes) Starman, she was born May 13, 1923, at Roselle. She spent her younger years in the Roselle community and attended Holy Angels School.

On May 14, 1946, she married Paul Mayer at St. John Church in Adair. The couple farmed near Manning, and then north of Carroll until March 1956, when they moved to Carroll. From 1961 until 1969, she headed the the hot lunch program at Sts. Peter and Paul School. From 1969 until her retirement in 1993, she was employed as the manager of the children's Department at the former Sernett Department Store in Carroll.

She was a member of Holy Spirit Parish and the Parish Ladies Guild, for which she had served as president.

Survivors include her husband, Paul Mayer of Carroll; two daughters, Betty Venteicher and Husband Gary of Carroll and Joyce Pudenz and husband Tom of Glidden; nine grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; a brother, Louis Starman and wife Eunice of Carroll; sisters: Margaret Kasperbauer of Manning and Sophia Rees and husband Milo of Guthrie Center; and sisters-in-law: Dorothy Halbur of Carroll, Veronica Quandt of Carroll, Verna Mayer of Carroll, and Emma Mayer of Carroll.

Mrs. Mayer was preceded in death by her parents; a sister, Rosa Starman; brothers: Anthony Starman and wife Lorraine, and Bernard and Anton Starman, in infancy; her father and mother-in-law, Frank and Teresa Mayer; and brothers and sisters-in-law: Jerome Kasperbauer, Frank and Eleanor Mayer, Ben and Alice Mayer, Agnes and Irvin Snyder, Jean and Ed Hansen, Joe Mayer, Leo Mayer, Adrian Halbur, Theresa and Mike Schaffer and Don Quandt.