PHILIPP, Leona Ida Matilda (Schlobohm) 1910-2011

PHILIPP, SCHLOBOHM, BUCKMAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/27/2011 at 14:32:45

Leona Philipp

RUDD, IOWA - Leona Ida Matilda Philipp, 101, passed away Dec. 25, 2011, at the Manilla Manor in Manilla.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 29, at Eden Presbyterian Church, 3105 Glass Ave., rural Rudd, with the Rev. John Bates officiating. Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery, Rudd. Visitation will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage.

Leona was born October 11, 1910, in Rock Falls, the daughter of William and Margaret (Buckman) Schlobohm. She graduated from Rock Falls High School in 1927.

On June 26, 1932, Leona and Robert Philipp were married in Rochester, Minnesota. They made their home in Rudd and later moved to their farm by Rudd, where they raised three children, Sylvia, Robert, and Daryl.

Leona was a lifelong dedicated member of Eden Presbyterian Church. Sharing her faith with family and friends was her calling. Leona was gifted with artistic talent; her family has many of her works of tatting and paintings. She shared her Dennis the Menace cartoons, rhubarb meringue pie and paper beads with family and friends. In her later years, she enjoyed playing cards and fellowship with family.

Leona is survived by her three children, Sylvia Pluntz, Robert Lee Philipp, and Daryl Craig Philipp and his wife Denise. Leona also leaves behind six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Robert Louis Philipp; son-in-law, Arvy Pluntz; her parents; brother, Otto Schlobohm; and sister, Grace Schlobohm.

Information available and condolences accepted at www.champion-bucheitfuneralhome.com.
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, 641-732-3706.

[ Globe Gazette online, December 27, 2011 ]