Ethel Charlotte (Bakula) Ohmert 1928-2012

BAKULA, OHMERT, MCCAFFERY, EAGLE, CLIFTON, WESTOFF, SCHNEIDER, WENZEL, KNEBEL

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 11/17/2018 at 20:47:22

Telegraph Herald: Web Edition Articles (Dubuque, IA) - Friday, March 9, 2012

Ethel Charlotte (Bakula) Ohmert, 83, of Dubuque, died Tuesday, March 6, 2012, at home surrounded by her family.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 10, at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, with the Rev. Mark Ressler officiating. Burial will be in Center Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Siegert-Casper Colonial Funeral Home, 390 N. Grandview Ave., where there will be a scripture wake service at 7:30 p.m.

She was born on May 27, 1928, in North Buena Vista, Iowa, daughter of Frank and Mary Ann (McCaffery) Bakula. She married Donald L. Ohmert on Feb. 1, 1958, in North Buena Vista.

Ethel worked at the Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. as an operator and was the co-owner/bookkeeper of Ohmert's Excavating and Ohmert's Lawn and Sports, she also managed several rental properties.

She was a member of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church for over 52 years.

Ethel enjoyed traveling and camping and had visited almost every state in the U.S. She also enjoyed traveling outside the United States, especially to Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal and Switzerland. Ethel loved reading to her grandkids, fishing and gardening. She was an avid euchre player.

Surviving are her husband of 54 years, Donald; her four children, Debra (Marvin) Eagle, of Yates Center, Kan., Sandra (Rick) Clifton, of Omaha, Neb., Roger (Carol) Ohmert, of Dubuque, and Douglas (Peggy) Ohmert, of La Motte, Iowa; 10 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ramona (Danny) Westoff, of New Vienna, Iowa, and Delores Schneider, of Tigard, Ore.; a brother-in-law, Bud Wenzel; sisters-in-law, Alvina Bakula, Threse Bakula and Gloria Bakula.

She was preceded in death by her parents; eight brothers, Emmet, Gerald, Frank, Walter, Edward, Theodore, Stanley and Keith Bakula; and three sisters, Marie Knebel, Irene Knebel and Ruth Wenzel.

Memorials may be given to Hospice of Dubuque and Home Instead Senior Care.

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

The family wishes to extend a special thank-you to Dr. K. Nelson and her nurse Joan, the nurses and staff at Hospice of Dubuque and Home Instead Senior Care for their constant care and support.