Monce, Juanita Jean

MONCE, MICHAELS, COMSTOCK, SIESSEGER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/27/2013 at 01:53:03

Juanita Jean Monce

Juanita Jean Monce, 87, 205 27th Ave S., Clear Lake, IA, died Wednesday, October
31, 2012 at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, IA.

A funeral service will be held 10:30 AM, Saturday, November 3, at Ward-Van
Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St., Clear Lake. Rev. Patti Aurand, of the
First Congregational United Church of Christ in Mason City will be officiating.
The family would like everyone to dress casually.

Visitation will be Friday from 5:00 – 7:00 PM at the funeral home. Interment
will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City, IA. The family requests any
memorials be to Hospice of North Iowa in Memory of Juanita J. Monce.

Juanita Jean “Nita” was born January 29, 1925 to Arthur and Gladys (Comstock)
Michaels in Mason City, IA. She attended and graduated from Clear Lake High
School in 1943 and attended Hamilton Business College.

On August 29, 1943 she married Francis Siesseger and to this union three
children were born, Carolyn, Joan and John. She worked at the Clear Lake Bakery
and Andrews Prestress until retirement. She then worked at Opportunity Village.
After her children were grown she moved to Arizona and Oregon where she met and
married Homer (Randy) Monce. When Randy passed away she moved back to this area
to be close to family.

She was a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Mason City
and Eastern Star. Nita loved reading, traveling, camping, photography and
spending time with her family and attending picnics in the summer at John and
Judy’s home.
She is survived by daughters Carolyn (Dale) Bird, Winona, MN and Joan (Jeff)
Nesler, Harrisburg, OR and son John (Judy) Siesseger, Clear Lake, IA. Also six
grandchildren, Linda (Andy) Waldo, Heather, Dean, Jenny, Christopher, Shawn and
Charles Nesler; And five step-grand children, Kim (Randy) Young, Bruce
Wilkinson, Angela Jansen, Kim (Vance) Wendel and Jason (Becky) Jansen; eight
great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild along with many nieces and
nephews and her extended family at Apple Valley.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Francis Siesseger and Homer
Monce, infant brother Calvin, and brother's George, Arthur, and Melvin (Mike).

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. 4th St., Clear Lake, IA 50428
(641)357-2193 www.colonialchapels.com