KICHERER, Jeanne A. (Follansbee) 1915-2008

KICHERER, FOLLANSBEE

Posted By: K. Kittleson (email)
Date: 9/4/2008 at 17:34:12

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CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Jeanne A. Kicherer, 93, of 1108 Hildreth St., Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa, died Wednesday, September 3, 2008, at the Ninth St. Chautauqua Home in Charles City.

Memorial services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, September 5, at Fullerton Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt St., Charles City with the Rev. Dennis Niezwaag of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. Inurnment will be held at a later date at Riverside Cemetery, Charles City. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to St. John Lutheran Church. Memories, stories and condolences may be shared with the family on the funeral home Web site at www.Fullertonfh.com . Funeral arrangements are by Fullerton-Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 641-228-4211.

[Published on Mason City Globe Gazette online -- 9/4/2008 -- www.globegazette.com ]

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CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Jeanne A. Kicherer, 93, of 1108 Hildreth St., Charles City, died Wednesday morning, September 3, 2008, at the Ninth St. Chautauqua Home in Charles City.

Memorial services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 5, at Fullerton-Hage Funeral Home, 401 Blunt. St., Charles City. Officiating will be the Rev. Dennis Niezwaag of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church. Inurnment will be held at a later date at Riverside Cemetery, Charles City.

Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to St. John Lutheran Church.

Memories, stories and condolences may be shared with the family on the funeral home Web site at www.Fullertonfh.com

Jeanne was born on March 13, 1915, at Long Lake, Minn., the daughter of Clarence Daniel and Gladys "Crane" Follansbee and she became one of four daughters. After moving several times, she graduated from Floyd Consolidated High School with the class of 1933.

In the early '30s her future husband, Franklin D. Kicherer, attended a band concert in Floyd where he met Jeanne, who was a drummer. Over the next several years loved blossomed and they were united in marriage on June 23, 1937, at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church where she had previously been baptized and confirmed.

She was an excellent seamstress and worked for Bea's Shop for several years and then ventured into a partnership and started Park Fashion in 1959 and then retired in 1962. Jeanne then worked part time for Roberts. Her skill with needle and thread led her to restoring antique dolls and fashioning teddy bears from fur coats.

Every summer for years the family would go to Round Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, to be by the lake and try her hand at fishing.

Her love of travel with her traveling companions, Marge and Bob Rabe, created a wealth of trips which spanned the globe, including Europe, New Zealand, Hawaii, the British Isles and London, to name a few.

Her husband of 71 years, Franklin, survives her, along with their son David and his wife, Rita, of St. Ansgar; three grandchildren: Misti Peppler, Chicago, Illinois, Michele Kicherer, Clear Lake, Iowa, and Daniel Kicherer, Taos, New Mexico; six great-grandchildren; and one sister, Marilyn and her husband, Len Butler, Tempe, Arizona.

Her parents and two sisters, Fern Elizabeth "Betty" and her husband, Elston Castle, and Geraldine and her husband, Bob Isham, preceded her in death.

Fullerton-Hage Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 641-228-4211.

[Published on Mason City Globe Gazette online -- 9/5/2008 -- www.globegazette.com ]

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