Koontz, Shirley Mae 1927-1978

KOONTZ, HOFFMAN, DAVIDSON

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Date: 11/17/2015 at 16:46:55

Shirley Koontz Dies Saturday; Services Today

Mrs. Earl E. (Shirley Mae) Koontz, 50 of 708 E. 6th St. N., a resident of Newton for 30 years, died Saturday morning at the Skiff Memorial Hospital.

Funeral services will be held at 7 p.m today at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

The Rev. Joseph B. Denning, pastor of the church, and the Rev. Edward Susic will conduct services.

Graveside rites will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at St. Anthony's Cemetery in Effingham, Ill.

Wake services were conducted Sunday evening at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home.

Friends may call at the Toland-Wallace Funeral Home until 6 p.m. today and at the church from then until time of services.

Survivors are her husband; a son, Richard; a daughter, Cindy; a granddaughter, Nicole Marie; a brother, Sherman Hoffman of Champaign, Ill.; and a sister, Mrs. Forrest (Zudora) Davidson, of Paris, Ill.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Pearl.

Mrs. Koontz was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

The daughter of Fred and Florence Hoffman, she was born June 3, 1927 at Effingham, Ill., and was a graduate of Effingham High School.

She was married June 30, 1945 at Effingham, Ill. ~ Newspaper unknown, possibly The Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa Mon 6 Mar 1978.