Rose Marie Lortz, 10 Dec 1928 – 04 Jul 2017

LORTZ, BERGER, BOPP, TRIMPE, DAVID, NIELSEN, BATZEL, COUGHLIN, SHRIVER, IMBODEN, BAZEL, GRIFFITH, NOSEK, HALLMAN, MOESSNER, TRUMPOLD

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 3/11/2018 at 17:36:44

Funeral service for Rose M. Lortz, 88, Hiawatha, will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday, July 8, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Marion. She died July 4, 2017, at the Hiawatha Care Center.

The Rev. Perry Fruhling will officiate at the service.

Burial will be in the South Amana Cemetery, South Amana.

Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, July 7, at Kloster Funeral Home, and also one hour prior to service time.

Memorials can be contributed to St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Hiawatha, or the Amana Heritage Museum.

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

Rose Marie Berger was born Dec. 10, 1928, in South Amana, the daughter of Martin and Henrietta Bopp Berger. She received her education in the Amana School district and graduated from Amana High School in 1947. She attended Westmar College, Lemars.

She married George Trimpe. He later passed away.

On June 29, 1984, she married Harlan Lortz at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, Cedar Rapids. She worked in the office at Amana Refrigeration as an executive secretary. She was involved in the Women’s Fellowship, chancel choir and Sarah Circle at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. She was also a part of the Homestead Welfare Club and Amana Heritage Society. She was a prayer warrior! She enjoyed vocal music, gardening, reading, traveling with Harlan and especially loved spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Lortz is survived by two children, Terry (Nancy) Trimpe, Hiawatha, and Teresa (Mike) David, Cedar Rapids; three step-children, Karen Nielsen, Pleasanton, Calif.; Ruth (Charlie) Batzel, Windsor, Calif., and Mark (Patti) Lortz, Pleasanton, Calif.; 10 grandchildren, Abby (Ohmar) Coughlin, Omaha, Neb.; Nathan Lortz, Mandie (Nick) Shriver, Libby (Ali) Batzel, Anne (Zach) Imboden, David Bazel, Tanya (Eric) Griffith, Jason (Julie) Nosek and Katie (Cavan) Hallman; 11 great-grandchildren, Carter Coughlin, Will and Ele Shriver, Providence and Justice Imboden, Abby and Logan Griffith, Aidan and Brady Nosek and Keenan and Pierce Nosek; and a sister, Lillian (Harold) Moessner.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister Doris Trumpold; her first husband, George Trimpe, and her husband, Harlan Lortz.

The Journal Tribune, 12 July 2017
The Gazette, [abbreviated] Friday, July 7, 2017 8a