Rosemary Schockemoehl

SCHOCKEMOEHL, FELTES

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Date: 12/3/2014 at 21:53:14

From the July 20, 2010 edition of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Rosemary Schockemoehl, 92, of Ennoble Manor, formerly of 2050 Pasadena Drive, died Monday, July 19, 2010, at Ennoble Manor.

Services will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 21, at St. Anthony's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Steve Rosonke officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul's Cemetery, Worthington, Iowa. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Siegert-Casper Colonial Funeral Home and Cremation Service, 390 N. Grandview Ave., where there will be a parish wake service at 7:30 p.m.

She was born on Jan. 28, 1918, in Worthington, Iowa, daughter of Nicholas and Frances Feltes. She graduated from St. Paul's High School in Worthington.

She married Louis J. Schockemoehl in 1939, at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Worthington; he preceded her in death on Jan. 12, 1976.

Rosemary worked with her husband in their business, a hardware and implement store in Worthington. She also worked at the Mercy Hospital gift shop in Dubuque for about 10 years and worked as a secretary for GS Energy for 15 years.

While in Worthington, she was a member of St. Paul's Catholic Church and the Altar and Rosary Society. After moving to Dubuque in 1978, Rosemary became a member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church.

Surviving are seven children, Alan (Betty) Schockemoehl, of Dubuque, Theodore Schockemoehl, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, Gary (Cheri) Schockemoehl, of Dubuque, Joan (friend, Jerry Winard) Suchan, of Crystal Lake, Ill., Mary (Bob) Jasper, of Davenport, Iowa, Jane Schockemoehl, of Urbandale, and Robert (Jane) Schockemoehl, of West Des Moines; 10 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Marilyn Feltes, of Rock Falls, Ill.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, George, Joe and Nick Feltes; and two sisters, Marcella Feltes and Frances Tauke.