Mabel Emma (Hark) Jungk 1906-2004

HARK, JUNGK, SCHRIEBER, GOURLEY, BLASEN, SMITH, WEIGMAN, GIZZI, BORGES

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 11/16/2017 at 23:10:30

Telegraph Herald, Sunday, October 10, 2004

Mabel E. Jungk, 98, formerly of 923 Bluff St., slept peacefully away in God's hands on Friday evening, Oct. 8, 2004, at Stonehill Care Center.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Ardel Barta officiating. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. today at Hoffmann-Schneider Funeral Home, 1640 Main St.

She was born on July 26, 1906, in rural Dysart, Iowa, daughter of Richard and Kate (Schrieber) Hark, and had four sisters and a brother, all deceased. She went to a little country school and graduated from high school at age 15.
She worked on her father's farm for several years (the girls didn't get paid for working, but the boys did) and then as a hired girl on a neighboring farm to earn money for nurses' training. She graduated as a registered nurse from the University of Iowa in 1930 and went to work there.

She married Arthur Jungk in 1932, and they had eight children. She was always involved in her community. When the children were at St. Patrick's, she made uniforms and choir robes, washed and ironed altar gowns and linens, served as head of the Parent Teacher Association and Rosary Society, helped with the festivals and was a Girl Scout leader. She was an excellent cook and often had cinnamon rolls just coming out of the oven when the children came home from school. As the younger children started school, she went to work at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque in the geriatric unit, from which she retired. She worked several summers as the nurse, called "Pills," at Camp Little Cloud and often had homesick little scouts sleeping in her cabin. She was always an excellent nurse and made the most of her skills, being called on whenever someone in the neighborhood was sick or injured.
She and her husband loved family outings - Sunday rides with a stop at A&W, picnics at the park, boat rides, ice cream from Kruse's and going to scenic areas. An excellent seamstress, she made most of the girls' clothes, some of the boys' and many outfits for grandchildren, too. She loved to do embroidery, crochet edging on pillow cases, knit sweaters and mittens, create fancy pillows and do other handiwork. She especially enjoyed the sewing hour at Salvation Army on Monday afternoons.
As a volunteer after retirement, she visited St. Patrick's parishioners in the hospitals and nursing homes, drove others to church and meetings and continued to serve. She was active with Visiting Nurse Association, Project Concern, AARP (charter member), Salvation Army and Stonehill Adult Center (where she volunteered until almost age 95.) She received several awards for her service from Governor Branstad. She was always a go-getter and wanted everyone to be involved. She would seek out the "wallflowers" and get them started doing something.

Mabel loved to travel anywhere. She went to Europe several times (attended the Passion Play in Oberammergau three times), Russia, Egypt, South America, China and all through the United States, except Louisiana and Rhode Island. She especially loved cruises and the chocolate desserts. She made several extended trips in the United States with her husband and later traveled with her sisters, Betty and June Hark.
Her influence and her positive philosophy will live on forever!

Surviving are seven children, Nancy Gourley, Barbara (Bill) Blasen and Alice (Wally) Smith-Weigman, all of Dubuque, Joan (Jim) Gizzi, of Glenview, Ill., Robert (Kaye) Jungk, of Platte City, Mo., Mary Borges, of Elk Grove, Ill., and John (Molly) Jungk, of Le Claire, Iowa; 27 grandchildren; and 35 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur, in 1958; a son, Thomas, in 2001; and a grandson, Leonard Gourley, in 1975.

The family requests no flowers. Prayers and a random act of kindness done in her name will serve nicely. Memorials may be given to St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Salvation Army, Stonehill Franciscan Services and Hospice.
Thanks so much to all of you who were so good to her!

"You live on in the hearts of everyone you have touched or nurtured while you were here." Morris Schwartz.