WEGNER, Margaret Mary (Rausch) 1916-2013
WEGNER, RAUSCH, GLASER
Posted By: K.L. Kittleson
Date: 6/7/2014 at 20:38:53
Margaret M. Wegner
October 29, 1916 - November 13, 2013
Margaret Mary Wegner, age 97 of New Hampton, Iowa died Wednesday November 13, 2013, at Mercy Medical Center in New Hampton of congestive heart failure.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday November 18, 2013, at Holy Family Parish, St. Joseph Center, New Hampton with Father Mark Osterhaus celebrating the Mass. Music will be provided by the North Washington Men’s Choir and Ann Bennett as organist. The pall will be placed by her children. Mass servers will be Hannah and Michael Denner. Eucharistic Ministers will be Joyce Shatek, Marilyn Wegner and Rose Baltes.
Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, New Hampton with James Wegner, Jason Wegner, Ryan Wegner, Nicholas Shatek, William EIscheid, Monty Vikdal, Tony Eischeid and Dalton Eischeid serving as pallbearers.
Friends may greet the family 2:00 - 6:00 p.m. Sunday, November 17th at the Hugeback Johnson Funeral Home in New Hampton where there will be a 3:00 p.m. Catholic Daughters of the America’s Rosary and a 5:00 p.m. Scripture Service. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the Mass at the church on Monday. Memorials may be directed to the family.
Margaret Mary (Rausch) Wegner was born October 29, 1916, the oldest child of John and Anna (Glaser) Rausch on a farm near Ionia, Iowa. She attended St. Mary’s School in North Washington. On April 27, 1936, she was united in marriage to John Joseph Wegner at the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in North Washington.
Margaret was a homemaker all her life with a job at Little Butch’s Restaurant in New Hampton for a short time. Raising nine children kept her busy with gardening and sewing as well as the usual domestic chores. She and her husband John, of 55 years, farmed in the Ionia and North Washington area. She participated in running Wegner Welding, until they retired in 1971. She was an active member of Holy Family Parish Catholic Church, St. Joseph Center, the Catholic Daughters of America and Rosary Society.
Her hobbies included quilting, gardening, giving to the Senior Center, playing cards, cross word puzzles, Scrabble and fishing.
Survivors include four daughters, Kathleen (Kay) Turner, New Hampton, Marilyn Wegner, New Hampton, Wuanita (Ron) Vikdal of North Washington, Joyce (Lester) Shatek of New Hampton; three sons, Gary (Debbie) Wegner of New Hampton, Russell (Nancy) Wegner of Fredericksburg and Steve (Sue) Wegner of New Hampton; 29 grandchildren; 53 great-grandchildren; 16 great-great grandchildren; one sister-in-law, June Rausch of Alamo, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John in 1992; two sons, Allan Wegner in 1972 and Richard Wegner in 1996; one sister, Joanna Pickar; five brothers, Ralph, Vince, Leander, Edwin and Louis Rausch.
Source: Hugeback Funeral Home website
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