Leta Lucille Graesch

GRAESCH, TOUSLEY, STARR, FUHRMAN, HILL, TOWER, GRAPES

Posted By: Cindy (email)
Date: 11/4/2008 at 20:00:16

OELWEIN, Iowa — Leta Lucille Graesch, mother of Russell Graesch of Ponca City, died Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, at Mercy Living Plus in Oelwein, Iowa. She was 93.

The funeral will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 7, 1999, at Zion Lutheran Church in Oelwein with the Rev. John Kerr officiating. Burial will be in the Cass Township Cemetery in Strawberry Point, Iowa. Arrangements are under the direction of Jamison-Schmitz Funeral Home inc. in Oelwein, Iowa.

Leta Lucille Graesch was born May 6, 1906, at Wadena, Iowa, the daughter of George Franklin and Mahalia Matilda (Tousley) Starr. She married Albert J. Graesch on Feb. 14, 1923, at Volga City, Iowa. She had been an Oelwein resident since 1944 and was a member of Zion Lutheran Church. She moved to Mercy Living Plus in November of 1996.

Survivors include two sons, Russell Graesch of Ponca City and Walt Graesch of Oelwein, Iowa; three daughters, Florence Fuhrman of Hazleton, Iowa, Elenora Jean Hill of Oelwein, Iowa, and Helen Trower of Waterloo, Iowa; one sister; Beulah Grapes of Oelwein, Iowa; 19 grandchildren; 46 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1975; an infant son, Robert; a son, Floyd Graesch; two brothers, eight sisters, two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.