ROLFES, Doris Ann (nee Meier) 1934-2004

ROLFES, ERNST, MEIER

Posted By: K. Kittleson
Date: 12/8/2008 at 17:22:42

Visitation:
Hauser Funeral Home
Charles City, Iowa

Service:
Friday, October 8, 2004
Bethany Alliance Church
1100 Clinton Street
Charles City, Iowa

Doris Rolfes, 70, of Woodbury, Minnesota, and formerly of Charles City, Floyd county, Iowa, died on Sunday, October 3, 2004, at the Woodbury Health Care Center in Woodbury, Minnesota.

Funeral services will be held 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Bethany Alliance Church, Charles City. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery at Rockford, Floyd county, Iowa.

Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Doris Ann Meier was born July 17, 1934, on the family farm in rural Floyd County near Rockford, the daughter of Julius and Elma (Ernst) Meier. She was educated in the Rockford public schools and graduated from Rockford High School in 1952. She belonged to 4-H, Methodist Youth Fellowship and Rural Young People. She worked for 3 years in Charles City.

She was united in marriage to Robert Rolfes on July 31, 1955. She loved nature, flowers, trees, walking and butterflies. She also loved textiles and music. She moved to Mankato, Minnesota in 1961 and spent 30 years there. She was a member of the Mankato United Methodist Women. She then moved to Minneapolis and then Woodbury until the time of her death.

Living relatives include her sons, Robert Jr. and wife Barbara of New Braunfels, Texas, and Brian and wife Renee of Cottage Grove, MN; daughter Kathryn Goettl and husband Bob, Aurora, CO; seven grandchildren; one great grandchild; brother Eugene and wife Lucille Meier of Rockford; two nieces, and three nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; and an infant brother and two nephews.

The Hauser Funeral Home, (641) 228-2323, www.hauserfh.com, in Charles City, is in charge of arrangements.

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