Margaret Ann Schott, Jan 1920 – 05 Aug 2013

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Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 8/14/2013 at 16:05:13

Margaret Schott, 93

Funeral Mass for Margaret A. Schott, 93, formerly of South Amana, was held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 10, at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Oxford. She died Monday, Aug. 5, 2013, at Crestview Care and Rehabilitation Center, West Branch.

The Rev. Greg Steckel officiated at the service.

Burial was in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Oxford.

Memorials may be made to St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Oxford, or Old St. Michael’s, Holbrook.

Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, was in charge of arrangements. Online condolences may be left at www.klosterfuneralhome.com.

Margaret Ann Schott was born in January 1920, in York Township, Iowa County, the daughter of James Davis Cox and Catherine Bernadette (Dolly) Barry. She grew up on the farm where she rode in a horse-drawn hack to attend country school and graduated in 1939 from Cosgrove High School. As a small child she was sent into the fire box to clean ash cinders from the steam engine during threshing season.

She married Bernard Schulte Jan. 30, 1940, at St. Peter’s, Cosgrove. They farmed many years near Walford, Holbrook, Parnell, North Liberty and Marengo. Tending chickens for egg money, a yard of ponies, helping in the fields and raising family defined her early years. Her husband died in 1977.

She married Francis Schott in 1978 and they farmed near Koszta along the Iowa River bottom.

She was one of the initial employees at the opening of the Marengo Memorial Hospital in 1956. Later, working in the University of Iowa Hospital kitchen, she was also employed as an aide in the radiology department, working with Dr. Maurice Van Allen. She was employed with Owens Brush for over a decade, specializing in machine and plant maintenance, retiring in 1977.

Never one to suffer fools gladly, she is remembered for her hard work, tenacity, deft candor and resiliency. Always ready to “make a long story short,” you could depend on it to get longer.

Close to her Irish family and proud of her heritage that included early settlers of York Township and the Holbrook area, she would tell you that in her family she had “six sisters and each of the sisters had two brothers.”

Schott is survived by four children, Bernard Francis and Ann Schulte, Litchfield, Minn.; Dr. James Richard and Sharon Schulte, Strawberry Point; Margaret B.C. and Richard Reihman, Oxford, and Mary Jo Ann Ginger Schulte and Frank Ives, Shoreline, Wash.; grandchildren, Theresa and David Parent, Carol and Clint Anderson, Kim and Tony Keller, Crisi and Jon Shoutz, Tom and Kim Schulte, Randy and Kendi Parvin, Christopher Schulte, Peter Schulte, Elizabeth and Marc Dierickx, Karin and Gary Kee, Karla and Bill Duwa, Julie and Brian Rustand, Joy Reihman, Joseph and Ann Auterman, Henry Ives, Shaina Ives; step-grandchildren, Domanic Hogendorn, Shawn Horgendorn, Dustin and Katie Hogendorn; great-grandchildren, Adam Parent, Molly Parent, Amanda Johnson, Michael Johnson, Autumn Johnson, Morgan Johnson, Andrew Keller, Christopher Keller, Jocelyn Keller, Kathryn Keller, Laura Shoutz, Sara Shouts, Abagayle Shoutz, Aleisha Shoutz, Jonathon Shoutz, Haley Parvin, Ainsley Parvin, Joseph Schulte, James Schulte, Isabella Schulte, Pierce Schulte, Truman Dierickx, Lena Kee, Sam Duwa, Violet Rustand; stepgreat-grandchildren, Nastazia Hogendorn, Makasha Hogendorn, Michael Hogendorn, Emmanuel Hogendorn, Alejandra Hogendorn, Carter Hogendorn, Brady Hogendorn; great-great-grandchildren, Tucker Johnson and Kenny Johnson; two sisters, Colleen Keith, Iowa City, and Emilie Young, Oxford, and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, her parents, grandchildren in infancy, Margaret Schulte, John Schulte, Charles Schulte and Luke Schulte; sisters, Maureen Hamilton, Mary Vest, Dorothy Schultz and JoAnne Neuzil, and brothers, Joseph Cox and Richard Cox.

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries, 15 Aug 2013
The Gazette 08 Aug 2013