BEERY, Lois L. "Pete" (HOHENFIELD)

HOHENFIELD, BEERY, RUNGE, THOMAS, SHULTZ, BAMSEN, HUSAK, THOMAS, REDMOND, ALBRIGHT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/12/2015 at 23:40:36

Obituary - Lois L. "Pete" (Hohenfield) Beery
October 04, 1933 ~ December 29, 2012

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
January 02, 2013

Mason City — Lois L. “Pete” Beery passed away peacefully on Saturday (December 29, 2012) after a short stay at Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City.

A funeral service for Lois will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday (January 5, 2013) at Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel, 126 Third St. N.E., Mason City, with the Rev. Denny Ganz officiating. Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.

Visitation will be held Saturday morning (January 5, 2013) from 11:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

Should friends desire, memorials may be left to Hospice of North Iowa in Lois’ name.

Born in Beatrice, Nebraska, on October 4, 1933, the daughter of Rudy and Helen (Runge) Hohenfield, Lois went on to graduate from Mason City High School in 1953.

She worked for a brief time at St. Joseph’s Hospital as a nurse’s aide before marrying John Beery, from Mason City, on November 15, 1958. Sharing homes in Mason City, East Grand Forks, Minnesota, and Renville, Minnesota, they finally returned and settled back down in Mason City in 1998. Lois and Johnny were married 54 years.

Lois enjoyed camping; together they traveled the Midwest, seeing the sights, catching up with old friends and making a few new friends along the way. Lois and Johnny shared a passion for reading and were regulars at the area libraries.

She is survived by her husband, Johnny; brother, Donald “Butch” Hohenfield; sisters, Virginia Thomas, Loretta “Pat” Shultz, Geraldine Bramsen and Rae Husak; as well as many nieces, nephews and extended relatives and friends.

Lois is preceded in death by her parents; siblings, Bob (Jean) Hohenfield, Loren (Barbara) Hohenfield, Samuel Hohenfield, Eileen (Jack) Redmond and Betty (Fred) Albright, as well as her in-laws, Cecil Shultz, John Husak and David Thomas.

“………. Courage is meeting a day at a time ……….”

Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel, 641-423-2372, Colonial Chapels.com.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2015

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