Mrs. LEROY (Mary Manders) MANDERSCHEID

SCHARTZ, MANDERS, MANDERSCHEID, KUETER, RIECKENS, PLOESSL, WOLTER, BRINKER, KOOS, TILL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 7/9/2003 at 15:29:30

Mary Manderscheid

Telegraph Herald - Tuesday, June 3, 2003

BELLEVUE, Iowa - Mary Manderscheid, 101, of Bellevue, died Monday morning, June 2, 2003, at Mill Valley Care Center, Bellevue.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Bellevue, with the Rev. Stephen Meyer, officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Kingery Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Bellevue.

She was born on April 20, 1902, in La Motte, daughter of Peter and Margaret (Schartz) Manders. She married Leroy Manderscheid on Jan. 22, 1925, at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, La Motte.

She was a homemaker and farmed with her husband south of La Motte until 1974, when they moved to Bellevue.

She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, and its rosary society. She enjoyed crocheting, quilting and was a wonderful cook.

Surviving are a daughter, Imelda (Greg) Kueter, of Belleuve; six grandchildren, Lila (Tom) Rieckens, Nancy (Joe) Ploessl, Stan (Sandy) Kueter, Mary Jane (Mike) Wolter, Chuck (Sharon) Kueter and Jan (Dave) Brinker; 15 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; a sister, Catherine Kaiser, of Bellevue; and two sisters-in-law, Florence Manderscheid, of Maquoketa, and Ursula Manderscheid, of Farley.

She was preceded in death by her husband, on Feb. 12, 1988; six brothers, George, Peter, Leo, Mathew, Chris and Irvin Manders; and two sisters, Anna Koos and Loretta Till.