Valeria E. (Greiner) Platz 1923-2008

PLATZ, GREINER, GAUL, HOFFMAN, WESSELS, SCHOENING, SULLIVAN, HELLE, WILLENBORG

Posted By: Cheryl Moonen (email)
Date: 1/20/2015 at 16:45:32

From the April 6, 2008 edition of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald

DYERSVILLE, Iowa -- Valeria E. Platz, 84, of Dyersville, died Friday, April 4, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center-Dyersville, following a brief illness.

Services will be at noon Tuesday, April 8, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville, with the Rev. Phil Kruse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Monday at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be a parish scripture service at 4 p.m.

She was born on Nov. 19. 1923, in Luxemburg, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Gaul) Greiner. She married Gilbert J. Platz on April 7, 1942, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Luxemburg; he preceded her in death.

She worked as a cook for the school lunch program at St. Francis Xavier for many years.

She loved college basketball and the NCAA finals, gardening, cooking and baking, crocheting and fishing. She especially loved spending time with her family.

Surviving are four sons, Robert (Rosie) and Dan (June), both of Dyersville, Charlie (friend, Carol Langel), of Delhi, and Dale (Sue), of Omaha, Neb.; five daughters, Darlene Hoffman, of Dyersville, Carol (Chuck) Wessels, of Dubuque, Sandy (Dwight) Schoening, of Glenwood, Jane (Bill) Sullivan, of Oakdale, Minn., and Susan (Brad) Helle, of Cedar Rapids; 18 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; a sister, Alma Willenborg, of Dyersville; sisters-in-law, Jean Greiner, of Cedar Rapids, Lillian Greiner, of Independence, and Norma Platz Deppe, formerly of Dyersville.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Kenneth and Elmer Greiner; brothers-in-law, Elmer Schlichte, Tony Willenborg and Herb Platz; and brothers- and sisters-in-law, LaVerne and Jeannie Platz and Art and Anna Mae Breitbach.