PATTSCHULL, Mildred 1912 - 2003

PATTSCHULL, LOMEN, BIRDSELL, CHESHER, KOFRON, DIXON, TRIMBLE

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 1/25/2014 at 10:37:37

MILDRED PATTSCHULL

Mildred Pattschull, 91, Clear Lake, died Wednesday, April 16, 2003, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa. Funeral services were held, Saturday, April 19, 2 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Thomas Healey officiating. Interment was at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapels was in charge of the arrangements. Memorials may be given to the Mildred E. Pattschull Memorial Fund.

Mildred was born April 5, 1912, in Mason City, the daughter of Marx Edward and Edith (Lomen) Birdsell. She attended Mason City schools and graduated from Mason City High School in 1929. Mildred was employed by Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. from 1929 to 1936. She married Dale C. Pattschull on Jan. 21, 1933, in Mason City. They moved to Clear Lake in 1937. She worked from 1946 to 1955 in the Clear Lake Public Library. While working at the library, she organized a literature discussion group which later became a division of the Clear Lake Woman's Club Fine Arts Department. In May 1955, she began 22 years employment in the Clear Lake office of the Mason City Globe Gazette, working in all departments of the paper: news, classified advertising, and as office and circulation coordinator until retirement in May 1977.

Mildred was a member of the Clear Lake Congregational Church, a life member of the Kinney Pioneer Museum, member of the Birdsall Family Association, was past-president of the Clear Lake Wa-Tan-Ye Club, and for several years was a member of the Norfolk Historical Society in Simcoe, Ontario, Canada. Her hobbies include writing verse, birdfeeding and study. For several years her features on bird feeding, cutlines in verse and half-page New Year's greetings, which included the names of hundreds of Clear Lake families in rhyme, were of special interest to area readers. Researching family history and organizing family reunions was of special interest to her.

Mildred is survived by a son, Gary Pattschull and his wife, Donna, Newton, Iowa; a granddaughter, MaryKay Pattschull Chesher and her husband, Brian, Fontana, Calif.; a grandson, John Paul Pattschull and his wife, Gina, Newton; three great-grandchildren, Maria Rose and Sean Paul Pattschull and Nicholas Brian Chesher; brother, Donald Birdsell and his wife, June, Clear Lake; brother-in-law, Don Kofron, Austin, Minn.; also several nieces and nephews, Sharon Dixon and her husband, Larry, Linda Johnson and Nancy Whipple, all of Mason City; Dr. Phillip Kofron and his wife, Marilynn, Minneapolis, Minn.; Richard Long and his wife, Donna, Irvine, Calif., and Paula Pattschull and her husband Ken Rosevear, Evergreen, Colo.

Mildred was preceded in death by her husband, Dale, in February 1983; her parents, and two sisters, Lucille Trimble and Doris Kofron.