ALBERS, Edith Helen (WERNET)

WERNET, ALBERS, BICKFORD, HARMON, SHADLEY, JENSEN, NUEHRING, MAERTENS, GRUBEN, OTTCHEN, PETERSON, HARBESON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 11/21/2018 at 16:07:06

Obituary ~ Edith Helen (Wernet) Albers
May 17, 1991 ~ September 23, 2006

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, September 26, 2006

MASON CITY — Edith Helen Albers, 81, of 804 S. Garfield Ave., died of cancer Saturday (Sept. 23, 2006) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the First Baptist Church, 125 E. State St., with the Rev. Ron Stein officiating. Interment will be in Mt. Vernon Township Cemetery, Burchinal. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave. and continue one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church.

Memorials may be given to the Edith Albers Memorial Fund.

Edith was born on April 25, 1925 near Burchinal, Iowa, to Andrew and Marie (Bickford) Wernet. She married John Albers on Oct. 17, 1940 at the Lutheran Parsonage in Thornton, Iowa. To this union was born a daughter, Karon Kay and a son, Lynn John.

John and Edith farmed south of Swaledale until 1974 when they retired from farming and move to Mason City. During many of her years in Mason City, “Grandma Eddie” provided a day-care service in her home, helping raise and influence the lives of many children.

Edith was a woman of strong faith. She was a Sunday school teacher while a member of the First Baptist Church of Swaledale. Upon her move to Mason City, she became a member of the First Baptist Church of Mason City. Family was also important to Edith. She was always close to her sisters, and often enjoyed going to Bingo with her sister Marcella.

Always active, Edith enjoyed playing cards, baking, needlepoint, working in her yard and caring for her roses. Her daughter’s family will never forget that she was always there for them, and will fondly remember her famous homemade angelfood cakes for birthdays and cookie plates at Christmas. Friends and neighbors will remember that she was quick with a cup of coffee and a snack whenever they would stop over for a visit.

Edith is survived by a daughter, Karon Harmon and husband, Howard, of Swaledale; grandson, Brian L. Harmon and wife, Jeri, and their children, Tyler Spurgeon, Erin Spurgeon and Camille Harmon, of Des Moines; granddaughter, Roxanne Shadley and husband, William, and their children, Jonathan Conroy and Spencer Shadley, of Rockwell; brother, Russell Wernet, of Garner; sisters, Bonnie Jensen and husband, Harry Lee, of Las Vegas, Nevada, Iona Nuehring and husband, Harlan, of Mason City, Iola Maertens and husband, William, of Toledo, Iowa and Marcella Gruben, of Mason City; many loving nieces, nephews as well as a host of caring friends.

Edith was preceded in death by her beloved husband, John, in May of 1997; son, Lynn John, in infancy; three sisters, Greta Ottchen, Pauline Peterson and Virginia Harbeson; two brothers, Carroll and Leonard Wernet.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (641) 423-0924. www.majorericksonfuneralhome.com.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2018