WEBER, Cleo Maxine 1920-2003

WEBER, WITZEL, SLAGLE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/1/2009 at 12:40:19

RICEVILLE, IOWA - Cleo Maxine Weber, age 83, formerly of Riceville and Charles City, Iowa, passed away at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City on Friday, April 11, 2003. Funeral services will be held at The First Congregational United Church of Christ in Riceville on Tuesday, April 15, at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Gale Richards officiating. Burial will be in the Liberty Cemetery in Little Cedar, Iowa. Friends may call on Monday at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville during the hours of 4-8 p.m.

Cleo was born on Jan. 19, 1920, in Osage, Iowa, to Oscar E. and Ethyl Slagle Witzel. Cleo was baptized and a member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ. She attended country school around New Haven and moved with her parents to Little Cedar, Iowa, where she graduated from high school. She was united in marriage to Joseph Weber on Nov. 1, 1941. They farmed in and around Riceville before moving to Riceville in 1965. Cleo worked outside the home in restaurants in Riceville and Cresco as a cook and waitress. She also worked as a unit clerk at Mercy Hospital in Mason City for nine years.

Survivors include two sons, Jerry and his wife, Marie, of Elkader, Iowa, and their children: Michelle, Jason and Aaron; and (son) Dean and his wife, Bonita, of Rockwell, Iowa, and their children: Wade (and his wife Caryn and children Cedric and Amelia), and Wendy and her husband, Greg Johnson, Micah and Mandy; and one daughter, Mary Burke of Lexington, Ky., and her children Derrick (and his wife, Shannon, and their children Alyssa, Brandi and Bailey), Joey, David (and his wife Chris and son Dylan), Jean (and her husband John Barnett) and Michelle. Also surviving is a sister, Lola Church, and her husband, John, of Cresco, Iowa.

Cleo was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Joe in May of 2001, a granddaughter Mindy, a son-in-law, Jim Burke, in 2002 and one sister.