Bendina M. (Tebbe) Petesch

TEBBE, SCHMIDT, PETESCH, MAHER, LAMPE, MUELLER, STURM, KILBURG, HAMMOND

Posted By: Barbara Gehlsen Nugent (email)
Date: 7/31/2011 at 15:28:28

Telegraph Herald on-line obituaries

BELLEVUE, Iowa -- Bendina M. Petesch, 92, of Bellevue, died, Sunday, Aug. 3, 2008, at Mill Valley Care Center, Bellevue.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Bellevue. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Kingery Funeral Home, Bellevue. Friends also may call after 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home until procession to the church.

She was born on July 4, 1916, in Bellevue, daughter of Nicholas and Mary (Schmidt) Tebbe. She married Gordon Petesch on June 3, 1941, in Springbrook.

She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church.

Bendina was an active woman who enjoyed staying busy. She was a homemaker and a farmer's wife. She enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing, quilting, crocheting and spending time in the garden.

Surviving are her husband of 67 years, Gordon Petesch, of Bellevue; a son, Daniel Petesch, of Bellevue; a daughter, Mary (Kevin) Maher, of De Witt; three grandchildren, Ryan, Brandon and Benjamin Maher; two great-grandchildren, Jacob and Brooke Maher; two sisters, Velma (Richard) Lampe and Madonna (Edward) Mueller, both of Bellevue; and a brother, Lloyd Tebbe, of Bellevue.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Erma Sturm, Rita Kilburg and Dula Hammond; and a brother, Vincent Tebbe.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.lemkefuneralhome.net.

The family would like to thank the entire staff at Mill Valley Care Center and Hospice of Dubuque.