DRALLE, Iris I. 1918-2000

DRALLE, SCHLIEF, FISHER, WAGNER, BRUNS, MCNEILUS

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 6/26/2010 at 09:47:05

Iris I. Dralle, 81, died on Tuesday, April 25, 2000, at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City, Iowa. She was born on May 24, 1918.

Funeral services were held on Friday, April 28, 2000, at the St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, with Pastor Lance Kittleson officiating. Organist was Sandra Schuknecht and soloist was Twyla Ring, who sang “Just a Closer Walk With Thee” and “Whispering Hope.” The congregation sang “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “The Old Rugged Cross.”

Casket bearers were Mark Dralle, Darin Fisher, Rob Dralle, Kenny Schrage, Dale Poe and Russell Schrage. Interment was in the South Vilmar Cemetery, Greene. The Reid’s Funeral Chapel, Greene, was in charge of the arrangements.

Iris Isabell Schlief, was baptized on June 23, 1918 and confirmed on September 31, 1931 at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Grove Lake, Minnesota. She received her high school diploma in St. Cloud, Minnesota on December 26, 1933.

On October 13, 1937, she was united in marriage to Lawrence Conrad Dralle at Sauk Center, Minnesota. Their marriage was blessed with four children. They farmed and lived in north central Iowa for 38 years. Iris worked for the Greene Café for several years and sold Watkins products in the Greene area for many years. In 1997, they celebrated 60 years of marriage.

For the past twenty-one years, Iris enjoyed her four children and thirty-seven grandchildren. She enjoyed building wooden play house toys for the grandchildren. She will be remembered by her family and friends for the homemade rolls, bread and pies she baked and the flavors, smells and warmth that came from her kitchen every Saturday.

Iris was a member of the St. John’s Lutheran Church at Vilmar for many years and was currently a member of the St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene.

She is survived by two sons and their spouses, Robert and Elaine Dralle of Knoxville, Iowa and Keith and Susan Dralle of New Orleans, Louisiana; two daughters, Arlene and her husband, Rollo Fisher of Nashua and Patricia Wagner of Lathrope, Missouri; 17 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren; three brothers and their spouses, Irven and Eva Lea Schlief of Donniphan, Missouri, Clifford and Lavern Schlief of Lowry, Minnesota and Alder and Violet Schlief of Glenwood, Minnesota; one sister-in-law, Rose and her husband, Marvin Bruns; and two brothers-in-law, Paul Dralle of Greene and Jim McNeilus of Marble Rock; and several nieces and nephews.

Iris was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence on July 10, 1999; two grandchildren, Nicole Dralle and David Fisher; a son-in-law, Larry Wagner; her parents; one brother, Wilford; and two sisters, Irene and Hattie.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, May 6, 2000]