BANDEL, Virginia Lorraine (KESTER)
KESTER, BANDEL, PREDMORE, KRONEMAN, HOFFMAN, HANKE
Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 10/26/2017 at 12:54:48
Obituary ~ Virginia Lorraine (Kester) Bandel
April 05, 1930 ~ September 20, 2016The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
September 22, 2016MASON CITY — Virginia Lorraine Kester Bandel, 86, of Mason City, passed away peacefully from complications of a stroke on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, at the IOOF Home.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016, at the Church of Christ, 710 N. Kentucky Ave. Interment will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and will continue one hour prior to services at the church.
Family requests memorials be directed to the Church of Christ, the IOOF Home, or Hospice of North Iowa. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com
Virginia was born April 5, 1930, on the farm in Olmsted County, Minnesota, to Edward Clinton and Luella Elfreda Predmore Kester.
She graduated from Chatfield High School in 1948, and married Glen Edward Bandel on Oct. 29, 1948, at the Church of Christ in Marion, Minnesota.
Virginia attended Minnesota Bible College.
Virginia faithfully supported her husband in many ministry positions and other employments throughout their married life. It was because of her faith that challenged Glen to become a minister. Early in the marriage she did chalk drawings to music, sang specials and played the piano for church. Virginia enjoyed listening to church music clear up to the last few days of her life.
She was an excellent homemaker and cook for her family, including canning vegetables from her garden. She worked part-time out of the home on different occasions, but being home with her family was her true love.
The smell of baked bread, chocolate chip cookies, Special K bars, pigs in a blanket, elephant tracks and other favorites was in the air when you walked in after school. She did a great job caring for her husband and four children as well as keeping a spotless home. Over the years she enjoyed lunch out with her husband, Glen, every day.
Virginia is survived by her devoted, loving husband of 68 years, Glen, who sat faithfully by her side 10 to 11 hours a day for the past six months following her stroke.
She is survived by her four children, Dean (Pam) Bandel, Centerburg, OH; Judy (Lowell ‘Butch’) Kroneman, Grafton, IA; Dale (LuAnn) Bandel, Gary, SD and Betty ‘BJ’ (Bob) Hoffman, Lake City, MN; 10 grandchildren, 16 great- grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild due in November. Virginia is also survived by one sister, Eleanor Hanke of Rochester, MN, and many nieces and nephews.
Virginia was preceded in death in by her parents, three brothers, two sisters and four great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are with Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, IA 50401, 641-423-0924, www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2017
Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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