NEU, Amelia Grace

NEU, OLSON, BEAMER, WILSON, HUGHES, TINKHAM, SMITH

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 8/17/2013 at 11:29:39

AMELIA G. NEU

FOREST CITY - Amelia G. Neu, 99,of Forest City, died Wednesday (July 17, 2002) at the Good Samaritan Center in Forest City.

Funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at St. James Catholic Church in Forest City, with the Rev. James Blake officiating. Burial will be at Clear Lake Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Petersen Lund Funeral Home, 505 N. Clark St. in Forest City, with a 6:30 p.m. Scripture service.

Amelia Grace Neu was born in Clear Lake, on June 26, 1903, to Anna and Arnie Olson. After graduating from Clear Lake High School, she then graduated from Hamilton Business College in Mason City and worked in the offices of the Northwest Cement Co. She later was employed at the First National Bank and witnessed the bank's robbery by the gangster John Dillinger.

Amelia married Edward T. Neu in 1929 at St. Theodore Catholic Church in Albert Lea, Minn. They had two daughters, Patricia Grace and Elizabeth Ann, and resided in Iowa their married life.

In 1952, Amelia returned to the work force through employment at Damon's Department Store in Mason City and worked in the drapery department for 25 years. In 1981, Amelia and her husband moved to Forest City. Shortly thereafter, her husband died.

Amelia enjoyed her retirement years, traveling with her daughters and their families from Hawaii to Florida, and many states in between. She loved her flowers and enjoyed playing cards and dancing.

Her family, together with her four grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, were the light of her life. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. Everyone she met described her as a sweet and kind person.
She was a member of St. James Catholic Church in Forest City.

She is survived by her daughters, Patricia Beamer, of Kokomo, Ind., and Liz Wilson and husband, George, of Forest City. Also surviving are her grandchildren, Scott Wilson and wife, Paula, and children, Amanda, Jacob and Melissa, of Forest City, Linda Hultman and husband Dave, and son Brayden, of Omaha, Neb., Michael Beamer of Chicago, Ill. and Deborah Brecht and husband, Dave, and son, Colin, from North Liberty. She was also survived by a sister-in-law, Catherine Hughes, of Mason City.

Amelia was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Edward; her brothers, Archie Olson and Melvin Olson; and her sisters, Alma Tinkham and Nellie Smith.