DALESKE, Mary Ann (HAIJSMAN)

DALESKE, HAIJSMAN, MANNENS, THOMAS, ABBAS, KENT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/7/2013 at 13:55:18

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
January 06, 1996

Obituary - Mary Ann (Haijsman) Daleske
January 26, 1938 ~ January 04, 1996

MASON CITY - Mary Ann Daleske, 57, of 208 Meadow Lane, died Thursday (Jan. 4, 1996) at her home.

A funeral Mass will be held at 11:30 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, 302 Fifth St. S.E., with the Rev. James E. Hayes and the Rev. Louis Greving officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery.

Visitation will begin after 3 p.m. Sunday at Hogan-Bremer Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., with a Chaplet of Divine Mercy prayer service at 3 p.m. a Knights of Columbus rosary at 5 p.m. and a Scriptural prayer service at 7 p.m.

Mary Ann Daleske was born Jan. 26, 1938, in Mason City, daughter of Leonard and Elizabeth (Mannens) Haijsman.

She married Lorenz Daleske on Sept. 7, 1957, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Mason City.

Mary Ann grew up in Mason City and graduated from Mason City High School in 1956.

She attended St. Mary's School of Nursing in Rochester, Minn. She obtained an Associate of Arts in nursing at NIACC, a Bachelor of Arts at Minnesota Metropolitan State University, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Dubuque, a Masters of Science in education at Iowa State University and a Masters of Science in nursing at the University of Dubuque. She had completed course work for her doctorate at Iowa State University.

For many years she worked as a nurse and then taught in the Associate Degree Nursing program at NIACC for 17 years until retiring in 1988.

She then was active in Floyd and Leonard Auto Electric and continued to evaluate nurses aides for NIACC.

Mary Ann loved to travel and enjoyed weaving and playing the piano.

She volunteered at Hospice, Americana Nursing Home and North Iowa Mercy Health Center.

She was a member of the Weavers Guild, St. Joseph Catholic Church, and she was active in Marian prayer groups.

Survivors include her husband, Lorenz Daleske of Mason City; three daughters, Julie Thomas and her husband, Robert, of Marshalltown; Nancy Abbas and her husband, Tom, of Plymouth, and Sue Kent and her husband, Ed, of Billings, Mont.; and nine grandchildren, R.C. and Heather Thomas, both of Marshalltown; Alexandra, Mark and Paige Abbas, all of Plymouth, and Joe, John, Katie and Will Kent, all of Billings, Mont.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leonard and Betty Haijsman; and one granddaughter, Elizabeth Abbas.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013