Helen E. Burmeister

BURMEISTER, ROCKROHR, WESTPHAL, IRVINE, MISKIMEN, DUNSHEE

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 10/10/2008 at 20:07:39

Maquoketa Sentinel-Press
October 1, 2008

Helen Burmeister

Helen E. Burmeister, 89, of Lost Nation died Saturday evening, Sept. 27, 2008 at her home.

A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 30, at Lahey Funeral Home in Lost Nation.

Burial will be in the Smithtown Cemetery, rural Lost Nation, at a later date.

Visitation will be held from 1 p.m. to service time Tuesday at the funeral home.

Mrs. Burmeister was born March 10, 1919 in Maquoketa to Arthur and Amelia (Rockrohr) Westphal.

She graduated from Delmar Consolidated High School.

She married Earl H. Burmeister on Sept. 25, 1935 in Lost Nation. He died on July 21, 1992.

She was a homemaker, worked together with her husband on the farm and acted as manager of her husband’s dance band.

She had been a member of Union Presbyterian Church in Lost Nation since 1951, where she served as a church elder and deacon.

Survivors include one son, Gerald (and Anita) Burmeister of Lost Nation; two daughters, Janet (and Dr. James) Irvine of Sequim, Wash., and Karen Miskimen of Cedar Rapids; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren and one brother, Clarence (and Eva) Westphal of Omaha, Neb.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Mildred Dunshee.

Memorials may be given to Hospice of Jackson County.

Online condolence may be left for the family at www.laheys.com.