SHOOP, Luella Mae 1918 - 2009

SHOOP, ELIASON, ASBE, PITKIN, MANUEL, PETERSEN, SWEAT, KUECK

Posted By: Gayle P. Snow (email)
Date: 6/5/2023 at 19:47:24

Luella May Shoop, 91, of Heritage Care Center, Mason City, Iowa, died Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at Mercy Medical Center of North Iowa, Mason City. A Celebration of Life Service for Luella was held Friday, July 24, at Zion Lutheran Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dean Hess officiating. According to her wishes her body has been cremated. A private Inurnment was held at Clear Lake Cemetery. Those who wish may honor her memory with a memorial to Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake.

Luella May Asbe was born May 16, 1918 in Charles City, Iowa to Henry A. and Ida Elizabeth (Eliason) Asbe and baptized in the Lutheran faith. Later, her family moved to Kensett, Iowa, where her father was a blacksmith. Luella was confirmed at Kensett and graduated from Kensett High School in 1936. She was the only member of her high school class to attend the last Kensett All School Reunion in 2006. After the death of her father in 1937, she moved with her family to Clear Lake. On July 20, 1940, she married Clyde Shoop at Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake. The couple later moved to Portland, Ore., and both worked in the Kaiser Shipyards during the World War II war effort. They became the parents of one daughter, Sandra Kay. They returned to live at Clear Lake following the war.

After her husband’s death in 1965, Luella worked as a housekeeper at the Holiday Inn in Mason City for 18 years.

Several area families will fondly remember elderly family members being visited and cared for by Luella in their homes and nursing home rooms. Upon her retirement at 70 years of age, Luella enjoyed serving her homemade treats to nursing home residents after escorting them to church services.

Left to cherish her life and loving memory are one daughter, Sandra Kay Pitkin and her husband, David, Rochester, Minn.; one grandson, Daniel David Pitkin, and his wife, Carleen, of Highland, Ill.; one granddaughter, Angela Kay Pitkin, and her husband, Rob Svetly, of Coralville, Iowa; three great-grandchildren, David, Alicia, and Laura; four sisters; Iona Manuel of Mason City, Esther (Bob) Petersen of Iowa City, Norma Jean (Jim) Sweat of South Merritt Island, Fla.; one brother, Robert Asbe of Mason City and several nieces and nephews.

Luella was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Clyde; one grandson, Steven Thomas Pitkin in infancy; one brother, Donald Asbe; and two sisters, Gladys Asbe and Doris Kueck.