Myra E. (Scherbring) Rausch 1926-2016

RAUSCH, SCHERBRING, KRUSE, LIVINGSTON, BILDSTEIN

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 11/8/2019 at 10:30:40

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Saturday, February 27, 2016
Myra E. Rausch

DYERSVILLE, Iowa - Myra E. Rausch, 89, of, Dyersville, Iowa, died Thursday, February 25, 2016, at Shady Rest Care Center, Cascade, Iowa.

Visitation will be held 3 - 7 p.m. Sunday, February 28, 2016, at Kramer Funeral Home, 750 12th Ave. SW, in Dyersville, where a parish vigil service will be held at 3 pm. Visitation will continue from 9 - 10 a.m. Monday, February 29, at Kramer Funeral Home prior to funeral services.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, February 29, 2016, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville, Iowa, with burial in the church cemetery. Rev. Dennis Quint will officiate.

Myra was born November 16, 1926, in Petersburg, Iowa, the daughter of Aloysius and Clara (Kruse) Scherbring. She married Joseph J. Rausch on July 14, 1947, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Together they farmed in the Petersburg area, as well as ran the Corner Tap in Petersburg for 12 years. They moved to Manchester in 1980 when she became the seamstress at the hospital before retiring to Dyersville in 1995.

Survivors include 6 children: Donald (Wilma), of Dyersville, IA, Fred (Nancy Livingston), of Highland Park, IL, Rick (Gwenn), of Chicago, IL, Deb Rausch (Ron Streitman), of Minnetonka, MN, Bev Rausch, of St. Paul, MN, and Randy, of Dyersville, IA; 11 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren and 1 step great-grandchild; one brother, Jim (Janice) Scherbring, of Colesburg; and 2 sisters-in-laws, Adelaide Bildstein, of Dyersville, IA, and Joanne Rausch, of Guttenberg.

Myra was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Joseph, in 2002; her siblings, Paul Scherbring, Fritz (Florence) Scherbring, Urban Scherbring and Eunice Scherbring; and numerous in-laws.

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