DOMKE, Louise Melinda (Snow) 1914-2001

NOW, DOMKE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/7/2011 at 17:18:51

LOUISE MELINDA DOMKE

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA - Louise Melinda Domke, 87, of Nora Springs, formerly of Plainview, Minn., died Wednesday (Aug. 29, 2001) at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Her funeral will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 8, at the Community Presbyterian Church in Plainview, Minn. with the Rev. Paul Moore officiating. Burial will be in the Oakwood Cemetery in Rochester. There will be a picnic at 2 p.m. on Saturday, to share memories, at West Pavillon Shelter House at Silver Lake, Minn.

Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa in her memory.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday at the Schad & Zabel Funeral Home in Plainview, Minn. and one hour prior to services at the church.

Louise M. Snow Domke was born May 8, 1914 in Joseph, Ore. At the age of 3, her family moved to Minnesota and eventually settled in Rochester, Minn. She graduated from Rochester High School and then attended Winona State Teachers College.

She taught at country school district #29 in Olmsted County. During this time she met and married Theodore Domke on Nov. 18, 1934, and became a farmers wife.

She later worked at J.C. Penneys in Rochester for many years, as a bookkeeper. In 1962 they moved to a new farm in Plainview, Minn.

After her husband died in 1970, she started to work at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Wabasha, Minn. After she retired from there she became very active in the Community Presbyterian Church in Plainview.

Her biggest love was for Jesus Christ. She lived her life in a way that Jesus's love shown in everything she did and said. She loved being with her children and with any of her grandchildren.

She played piano with great feeling and style. She also was an accomplished seamstress and could create anything.

More than all of this, she was a wonderful mother, wife, friend, and could do anything. She was one of God's special angels here in earth.

She is survived by five children, Gwynn Domke, of Magnolia, Kentucky, David Domke and his wife, Marilyn, of Lawrence, Kansas, Elizabeth Schuett and her husband, Bill, of Bagley, Minnesota, Janice Hennick, of Mason City, and Carolyn Lyman, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky; 14 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter; eight nieces and nephews; and many great-nieces and nephews.

She is following her husband, Theodore; her parents, Irwin and Mina Snow; sister, Nellie Fryer and her husband, Harry; brother, Stanley Snow and his wife, Dottie; and two sons-in-law, Harold Wilkins and Glen Lyman to her Heavenly Home.

[ Globe Gazette, Sept. 5, 2001 ]