Esther Hattie Lingo, 09 Jun 1915 - 22 Mar 2013

LINGO, TSCHOPP, STEINMETZ, FAAS, STABENOW, ZIMMERMAN, SPRING, BRUESTLE

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 4/2/2013 at 14:47:32

Esther Lingo, 97

Funeral service for Esther H. Lingo, 97, Marengo, was held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, March 27, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Marengo. She died Friday, March 22, 2013, at Rose Haven Nursing Home, Marengo, surrounded by her daughters and caregivers.

Burial was in the Marengo Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to St. John’s Lutheran Church, Marengo; Marengo Memorial Hospital; Rose Haven Nursing Home, Care Initiatives Hospice or the donor’s choice.

Online condolences may be left at www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Esther Hattie Lingo was born June 9, 1915, the daughter of Fritz and Helen Steinmetz Tschopp, in a farm home south of Highway 6 across from the current Iowa Valley Trailer Estates. She attended Aurora School for all elementary grades, having the same instructor, Miss Nellie Nelson. She graduated as an honor student from elementary school.

She attended Marengo Carson High School for four years with many business courses. She was active in glee club, speech and sang in St. John’s Lutheran Church choir. She was confirmed in 1930. She was a member of the National Honor Society, graduating in 1932. After graduating, she was fortunate during the Depression to continue doing housework for an attorney and his wife.

She married James Vestal Wayne Lingo Feb. 5, 1934, at St. John’s Lutheran parsonage, Marengo. The Rev. Theodore Rottman officiated at the service. The couple lived for a short time in Missouri and returned to Iowa to help Esther’s mom with farming at a farm south of Marengo.

They purchased a home in Marengo in 1960. She worked as a cook at the Marengo High School. She later became a secretary at Marengo Memorial Hospital until retiring in 1981.

She was a loving wife and mother who enjoyed baking cookies and pies for others. She liked to play bridge and other card games with family and friends. She loved caring for her flower gardens as long as she was able.

She was an active member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, the Ladies Aid and Altar Guild. She was a member of the Marengo American Legion Auxiliary. After retirement, she continued her work at church, volunteered at the hospital, taking cookies and bananas to patients and staff, and donated pies to the Legion and church. Her volunteering continued until she moved to the Lodge on Lafayette in 2003. In 2007, she moved to Rose Haven Nursing Home.

Lingo is survived by two daughters, Doris and Richard Faas, Cedar Rapids, and Marilynn and Robert Stabenow, Janesville; one daughter-in-law, Janet Zimmerman, McKinney, Texas; grandchildren, James and Wendy Lingo, Mt. Dora, Fla.; Jeff and Heather Lingo, Plano, Texas; Dave Faas, Marion; Dawn and Jac Spring, Winona, Miss.; Troy and Rebecca Stabenow, Jefferson City, Mo., and Zakarij Stabenow, Waterloo, and 10 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, in 1989; her parents; one son, James Lingo, in 1992; one sister, Wilma Bruestle, and one brother, Fritz Tschopp.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries, 28 Mar 2013
Published March 24, 2013 in The Gazette