Ervin L. Willenbring 1925-2005

WILLENBRING, ROLING, LAMMERS, HAUFFE, FRY, RIES, DIESBURG

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Date: 4/1/2018 at 20:22:40

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Sunday, December 4, 2005

PETERSBURG, Iowa - Ervin L. Willenbring, 80, of Petersburg, died Thursday, Dec. 1, 2005, at The Finley Hospital, Dubuque, following a lengthy illness.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church, Petersburg, with the Rev. John O'Connor and the Rev. Phil Kruse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be a parish scripture service at 7 p.m.

Mr. Willenbring drove for L.G. Klostermann Trucking, and then worked for Bard Concrete for 30 years.

He was born on June 28, 1925, in Petersburg, son of John F. and Hilda L. (Roling) Willenbring. He married Olga L. Lammers on Sept. 30, 1952, in Petersburg.

Ervin was a lay distributor for the parish and a member of Ss. Peter & Paul Choir. He was a former member of the Petersburg School Board and Parish Council.

He managed the Petersburg semi-pro baseball team, Little League, Junior Legion and Babe Ruth.

Ervin was an avid Chicago White Sox and Green Bay Packers fan.

Surviving are his wife, Olga; two sons, John (Charlene), of Dyersville, and Jeff (Jane), of Earlville; a daughter, Jane (Dr. James) Hauffe, of Champaign, Ill.; 10 grandchildren, Caryn (Tim) Fry, of Van Horne, Colleen Ries, of Chicago, Natalie Ries, of Dubuque, Nathan Ries and Isaac, Sam and Claire Willenbring, all of Dyersville, Justin and Drew Hauffe, of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo., and Clay and Cole Willenbring, of Earlville; a great-granddaughter, Emma Fry; two brothers, LeRoy "Sal" (Pat) Willenbring and James (Janet) Willenbring, both of Dyersville; two sisters-in-law, Sr. Lucille Lammers, of Mount St. Francis, Dubuque, and Eloyse Diesburg, of Central City; and a brother-in-law, Bernard (Inez) Lammers, of Dyersville.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.kramerfuneral.com.

Thank-you to the doctors and nurses at Dubuque Internal Medicine and at Finley Hospital for their care and support the last few years.