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Lina Rettig, February 25, 1915 - February 2, 2006

RETTIG, HERTEL, HOUSER, LEONHARDT, PARVIN, SCHUPANITZ

Posted By: Stephen D. Williams
Date: 2/7/2006 at 15:59:25

Lina Christina Rettig, age 90, died Thursday morning, February 2, 2006 at Colonial Manor Care Center, following a long illness with Alzheimer’s Disease. Funeral Services: 10:00 A.M. Monday, February 6, 2006 at the Middle Amana Community Church in Middle Amana with Elder Peter Hoehnle officiating. Burial will be in the Middle Amana Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 4 P.M. Sunday, February 5, 2006 at the Middle Amana Church. Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo is in charge of arrangements.

Survivors include three children, Lawrence L. Rettig (Wilma) of South Amana, Bonnie J. Hertel (Stan) of Middle Amana, and Rosemary A. Houser (David) of Moatsville, West Virginia, and three grandchildren, Robin Rettig, Keegan Houser and Kaleigh Houser. Also surviving are a sister, Rose Leonhardt, a brother, Harry Leonhardt, three sisters-in-law, Elizabeth Parvin, Anne Leonhardt and Mary Leonhardt Schupanitz, and countless friends and neighbors. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard, her parents and a brother, Elmer Leonhardt.

Lina Christina Leonhardt was born February 25, 1915 in Middle Amana, the daughter of Ferdinand and Minnie Reihmann Leonhardt. She attended school in communal Amana until age 14, when she was assigned by the governing elders to work in one of Middle Amana’s communal kitchens. After the Amana Society abandoned communalism, she enrolled in and graduated from the Cedar Rapid’s Business College. For a number of years she worked in the Main Office of the new Amana Society Corporation. In later years, she served as Assistant Postmaster at the Middle Amana Post Office and as bookkeeper for the Amana Heritage Society. She married Leonard A. Rettig on February 18, 1939 at the Middle Amana Community Church. The couple remained in Middle Amana, where three children were born to this happy 66-year union. Leonard died March 20, 2005.

Lina was a beautiful lady, both in stature and in temperament. She was a gentle soul who made friends easily and who loved and cared for her family unconditionally. She was a member of the Amana Church Society, AARP, the Amana Heritage Society, and the Amana Arts Guild. She also participated in the Calico Investment Club and volunteered her time as a Campfire Girl leader.

Memorials may be contributed to the Amana Church Society, Amana Heritage Society or the charity of the donor’s choice.

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