Schwade, Joan Marie (Wiltgen) 1931 - 2015

SCHWADE, WILTGEN, HEROLD, SMITH, FLEMING, STEVENSON, STRUB, KLAISLE, HAUGEN

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 7/31/2015 at 13:33:55

Joan M. Schwade age 83 of Protivin died Tuesday, July 28, 2015, at the Hawkeye Care Center in Cresco.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday, August 1, 2015, at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Protivin, with Rev. Nick March celebrating the Mass. Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Friends may greet the family 4:00 -8:00 p.m. Friday, July 31, 2015, at Hugeback's Protivin Funeral Home where there will be a 4:00 p.m. rosary and a 7:30 p.m. parish scripture service. Visitation continues beginning at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Joan Marie Schwade was born October 2, 1931, in Ossian, IA, the daughter of Alphonso and Amelia (Herold) Wiltgen. She received her education in Ossian and graduated from St. Francis DeSales High School in 1948. Following high school, Joan went to work in Cedar Rapids for the Wilson Company and returned home a year later to help with the family business and care for her younger siblings.

On October 29, 1955, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, Spillville, she married Eugene W. Schwade. To this union four children were born. Joan worked for several places in the area including the school lunch room in Protivin, the Farmers Mill, Camcar in Decorah and Sara Lee in New Hampton until retirement. Joan also read the water meters in Protivin for 44 years. Mostly, Joan was the best of all mothers to her children. She loved going to bingo, fishing, traveling and spending time with all her ever-growing family. Joan was loved by so many with her smile and kind words. She will be dearly missed.

Survivors include one son, Keith (Lisa) Schwade of Rochester, MN; three daughters, Trudy (Louie) Smith of Ft. Atkinson, IA, Vicki (Kaiser) Fleming of Glennville, GA, Wanda (Tom) Stevenson of Ransom, IL; daughter-in-law, Julie Schwade of Cresco; fifteen grandchildren; twenty-eight great-grandchildren; one brother, Roger Wiltgen of Cedar Rapids; three sisters, Katy Strub of Sarasota, FL, Judy (Cliff) Klaisle of Eldorado Hills, CA, Dawn (Dale) Haugen of Auburndale, FL; sister-in-law, Carole Wiltgen of Cedar Rapids.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene on October 10, 1989; a granddaughter, Michelle Smith; brother, Guy Wiltgen; sister-in-law, Dorothy Wiltgen.

Source: Hugeback - Johnson Funeral Home database

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