HUENEMANN, Lois D. (Lenz) (1915-2011)

LENZ, GREIMANN, HUENEMANN, VOGT, WITTER, WILKISON, GRAVES, BEHEMAN, PHILLIPS, HANSEN, NEMER, TAYLOR, HABERKAMP, STROMER, ANDERSON

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 10/6/2011 at 19:41:23

SOURCE: Mason City, Iowa, GLOBE GAZETTE, June 7, 2011
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related - Volunteer transcriber for IaGenWeb - Allamakee County, Iowa)

Funeral services for Lois D. Huenemann, age 95, of Garner, Iowa will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, June 8, at Peace Reformed Church, south of Garner with Rev. Harvey Opp officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Cataldo Funeral Chapel in Garner is handling the arrangements.

Lois Dorothy, daughter of Wesley and Mathilda (Greimann) Lenz, was born December 4, 1915 on the Lenz Family farm southwest of Garner, Iowa where she lived for thirty-four years. She was baptized and confirmed at Peace Reformed Church where she continued as a member throughout her life. Lois graduated from Garner High School in 1933 and continued her education at Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, Iowa. On June 21, 1941, Lois married Elmer Huenemann in a wedding ceremony performed by Elmer's father, Rev. William Huenemann at the Peace Reformed Church.

Lois was always a homemaker. She was also employed as a public school teacher in Hancock County for nine years and in bookkeeping and secretarial work for fourteen years. She lived on farms the first 53 years of her life. In 1968, the family moved into Garner where she lived in her own home until 2006 when she moved to Prairie View Apartments. Throughout her life, Lois was active at her church. She taught Sunday School and Bible School for many years. She also sang in the church choir and participated in and held various offices in the Women's Missionary Society. Community activities included serving on the Hancock County Extension Council, singing in the Hancock County Chorus, serving as county chairman for the American Cancer Society and serving as 4-H leader. Her hobbies included vegetable and flower gardening, knitting (making 99 afghans), working with houseplants, cooking and traveling.

Lois always loved children and was involved in many ways in helping others. She was also a prolific writer, poet, record keeper and family
historian. Events throughout her life have been carefully documented and she leaves behind many examples of her poetry, histories and various other writings.

Lois Dorothy Huenemann died Saturday, June 4, 2011 at the Concord Care Center in Garner, Iowa. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Elmer Huenemann who died September 6, 1999; 3 sons-in-law, Allan Taylor, William Witter, and Dean Vogt; 4 siblings and their spouses, Ruth (Lenz) and Harold Haberkamp, Norma (Lenz) and Vemer Stromer, Clarence and Ruby Lenz, Evelyn (Lenz) and Clifford Anderson, and an infant brother.

Lois is survived by her 3 children, Joyce Vogt of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nancy Witter and her husband David Wilkison of Sante Fe, New Mexico, and Kent"K.J."(Karen) Huenemann of Garner, Iowa; 9 grandchildren, Daniel (Gretchen) Graves, Lynette (Greg) Boheman, Jennifer (Mark) Phillips, Christopher Witter, Victoria Huenemann, Rick Hansen, David (Mollie) Huenemann, Chastity (Jed) Hemer, and Heather Huenemann, 24 great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.