Delores Leanna Witte, 15 May 1933 - 04 Apr 2018

WITTE, MAAS, BAACK, CORBA, MEYER, HEINZE

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 4/30/2019 at 13:37:46

Funeral service for Delores L. (Maas) Witte, 84, Williamsburg, will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, April 7, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Conroy. She died Wednesday, April 4, 2018.

Pastor Gary Sears will officiate at the service.

Burial will be in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Conroy.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 6, at Trinity Lutheran Church, Conroy.

Memorials may be made to Lutheran Interparish School, Williamsburg, or Essence of Life Hospice, Amana.

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

Delores Leanna Witte was born on May 15, 1933, in Conroy, the daughter of Arthur G. and Adeline M. Baack Maas. She was proud to live her whole life in Iowa County.

She married Eugene H. Witte in October of 1952 and enjoyed her life as a wife and mother. In 1998, she was recognized by the Governor of Iowa, Terry Branstad, for the many years of volunteer work at the Lutheran Interparish School, Williamsburg.

Delores loved her life in the country and for many years, hosted numerous groups of school children taking field trips to her farm where she raised exotic poultry, dairy goats and other animals. She was an avid reader and gardener. She loved arts and crafts and enjoyed making projects for and with her children and later on, her grandchildren. She was an active member of the choir at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Conroy for many years.

Delores is survived by her husband of 65 years, Eugene Henry Witte; her sister, Janis Maas; her three children, Regis (Donna) Witte, Leanne (Gary) Corba and Rebecca (Darrell)Meyer; eight grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Willard and Gilbert Maas and her sisters, Arlene Maas and Dorothea Heinze.

The Journal Tribune, 11 Apr 2018
The Gazette, abbreviated 06 Apr 2018