TECHAU, Doris (Bean) Onken Mattson 1921-2003

ONKEN, BEAN, MATTSON, TECHAU

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/16/2011 at 21:10:40

Doris Onken Mattson Techau

NEW HAMPTON, IOWA - Doris I. Onken Mattson Techau, 81, died Sunday morning, August 10, 2003, at the New Hampton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, New Hampton, of a lengthy illness

Funeral services will be held at the Congregational United Church of Christ, New Hampton, on Friday, August 15, 2003, at 10:30 a.m., with the Rev. Mary Hatch officiating. Friends may call at the Congregational Church on Thursday, August 14, 2003, from 3 until 8 p.m. and 1 hour before services on Friday. Burial will be in the Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City.

Doris, daughter of Levi and Mary R. 'Jordan' Bean, was born on October 21, 1921, in Bradford. On July 8, 1939, she married Walter 'Red' Onken at Osage. They were divorced in 1968. On May 25, 1974, she married Alfred E. Mattson at the Little Brown Church, Nashua. They were divorced in 1997. On November 6, 1999, she married Lawrence Techau in New Hampton. Doris was a homemaker and belonged to the Women's Fellowship at Church and also to the Chickasaw County Historical Society at Nashua.

Survivors include her husband, Lawrence, New Hampton; four sons: Charles Onken, Kissimmi, Fla., James Onken, Sansimon, Ariz., Arthur and James Onken, both of New Hampton; two daughters: Sandra Elenz and Mary Ann Diesburg, both of New Hampton; 11 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; one step grandson; four step great-grandchildren; and two sisters: Anna Dose, Plainfield, and Geneva Allsup of Des Moines.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one son, Michael R. Onken, March 1, 1993; one grandson, Jessie Onken; two granddaughters, Lorilee Onken and Judy Elenz; two brothers and five sisters.

Memorials may be directed to the family.

Sunnyside Chapel Funeral Home in Charles City is in charge of the arrangements.

[Charles City Press]