SHUBERG-SEYFFER, Joan E.

SHUBERG, SEYFFER, FRANSEEN, MALANEY, RIECK, BALL, REGENNITTER, BOWERS, MONTENIER

Posted By: Lynette Edsall (email)
Date: 9/6/2006 at 12:20:56

Joan E. Shuberg-Seyffer, 53, of 100 Home Park Blvd., Waterloo, Iowa, died Thursday June 15, 2006 following a lengthy battle with cancer.

Memorial Services will be held Saturday June 24, 2006 at 10:30A.M. at Greenwood Funeral Home in Cherokee, Iowa. Rev. Mike Campbell, chaplain of Cedar Valley Hospice, will officiate. A visitation will be held from 9:00 A.M. until the time of service. Graveside Services will be at 2:00 P.M. in the North Lawn Cemetery, Spencer, Iowa. Online Condolences may be sent at www.greenwoodfuneral.com . In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to the family.

Joan was born on March 23, 1953, in Storm Lake, Iowa to Alden and Dorothy Franseen. She grew up in Spencer, Iowa and graduated from Spencer High School in 1971. Following High School she attended Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, Iowa graduating with an associate’s degree in Interior Design in 1973. On March 27, 1977, she married Kevin Shuberg in Sioux Rapids, Iowa. Together they had three children, Sam, Ben, and Heidi. They lived in Wyoming for ten years. In 1987 they moved to Cherokee, Iowa and later divorced.

Joan was actively involved with many things in Cherokee. She worked at Cherokee State Bank while she pursued a nursing degree at Western Iowa Tech Community College. After graduating in May of 1995 she was employed by Buena Vista County Hospital and Careage Hills Nursing Center. She also owned and operated Stephens Dry Cleaning. Joan especially enjoyed being a mother and participating in many social clubs including a Crochet Club known as the Happy Hookers.

In 2000, she moved to Cedar Falls, Iowa where she continued her nursing career at Allen Hospital. In 2003 she took a job at Friendship Village Retirement Center. On March 4, 2005, she was married to Daryl Seyffer at the Friendship Village Chapel. Daryl and Joanie have enjoyed many things together such as riding with the bike club, going to art festivals, and especially listening to live music.

She is survived by her husband, three children; Samuel Shuberg, and his special friend Lisa Malaney and her daughter, Kaitlyn, of Ixonia, Wisconsin, Benjamin Shuberg, and his wife, Emily, of Cherokee, Iowa, Heidi Shuberg, of Waterloo, Iowa; step-daughters; Angie Rieck and her husband, Jon, of Gladstone, Missouri, Amy Seyffer, of Moline, Illinois; her parents; Alden and Dorothy Franseen, of Spencer, Iowa; a sister; Linda Ball and her husband, Jim, of Lincoln, Nebraska; a brother; Brian Franseen, and his wife, Anji, of Spencer, Iowa, a brother-in-law; Bob Regennitter of Spencer, Iowa, sisters-in-law; Shirley Bowers, and her husband, Gene, of Hudson, Iowa, Jeanne Montenier, and her husband, Red, of Washburn, Iowa; one step-grandchild Elsie Rieck, many nieces and nephews and lots of friends.

She was preceded in death by her sister Barb Regennitter(1985).