Ernest E. Jesenovec 1951-2010

JESENOVEC, BONERT, BORGERDING, FRAKE, DENNISTON, ALTHOFF, SMITH, CIGRSND, JOHNSON, BERINGER

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Date: 10/1/2019 at 18:31:20

From the April 22, 2010 edition of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald

HOPKINTON, Iowa -- Ernest E. Jesenovec, 59, of Hopkinton, died Tuesday, April 20, 2010, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, after a brief battle with cancer, surrounded by family.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 24, at St. Luke's Catholic Church, Hopkinton, with the Rev. John Kremer officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul Cemetery, Worthington. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, April 23, at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be a parish scripture service at 8 p.m. Friends also may call from 9 to 10 a.m. Saturday at the church.

He was born on April 15, 1951, in Manchester, son of Edmund and Magdalen (Bonert) Jesenovec. He married Wilma Borgerding on May 13, 1972, in New Vienna, Iowa.

Ernie was a 1969 to 1975 Iowa National Guard Member.

He worked for Delaware County Secondary Road Department.

Ernie loved farming, operating heavy equipment, playing with his grandchildren, hunting and playing cards.

Surviving are his wife, Wilma; three children, Mary (Tim) Frake, of Cascade, Amy Denniston, of Hopkinton, and Lisa (special friend, Rich Lindecker) Jesenovec, of Dubuque; four grandchildren, MiKayla Callan and Brooke Denniston, both of Hopkinton, Addison and Emma Frake, both of Cascade; three brothers, Gerald (Jane) Jesenovec, of Farley, Robert Jesenovec, of Worthington, and David (Jane) Jesenovec, of Hopkinton; brothers-in-law, Edwin Althoff, of Anamosa, Irvin (Joyce) Borgerding, of Dyersville, Richard (Marilyn) Borgerding and Loras (Jean) Borgerding, both of Holy Cross, and Richard Smith, of Etters, Pa.; sisters-in-law, Helen Cigrand, of Cedar Rapids, Jane Johnson, of Harrisburg, Pa., and Carol (Tom) Beringer, of Farley, and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Mary Ann Althoff; a sister-in-law, Donna Borgerding; a brother-in-law, Dave Johnson; and mother and father-in-law, Ben and Mary Borgerding.