ZUEHLKE, Raymond E.

ZUEHLKE, ZIECH, SCHLEETER, BOEDING, WOERDEMAN, KRUSE, CARKHUFF, WILLIS, MILLER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 7/11/2008 at 16:16:47

"The Fairfield Ledger", Monday, July 7, 2008, Page 8

ZUEHLKE, Raymond E. -- Raymond E. ZUEHLKE, 87, of Mount Pleasant, died Friday, July 4, 2008, at Sunrise Terrace Care Center in Winfield.

A funeral was held today at First United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant, with the Rev. Herb Shafer officiating. Burial was in Zion Lutheran Cemetery near Douds.

Memorials have been established to First United Methodist Church, Zion Lutheran Cemetery and Amenity Hospice of Cedar Rapids.

Online condolences may be directed to www.olsonpowell.com.

Mr. ZUEHLKE was born Oct. 13, 1920, in Libertyville, the son of William and Emma ZIECH ZUEHLKE. He married Alice A. SCHLEETER April 11, 1947, at her parents' home in rural Douds.

Mr. ZUEHLKE attended school in Fairfield. After his sophomore year of high school, he left school to care for his ailing father and take over the family farm. Mr. ZUEHLKE spent his entire life in southeast Iowa. A farmer for many years, he planted corn and beans and raised Black Angus cattle and hogs, as well as dairy cows. He moved his family to Danville in 1968, and for several years, he was a production worker for General Electric, retiring in 1983. Following retirement, he moved to an acreage outside of Mount Pleasant and resumed farming.

As a youth, Mr. ZUEHLKE was confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He attended Methodist churches throughout adulthood and was a member of First United Methodist Church in Mount Pleasant.

He played the guitar and enjoyed playing for churches, schools and square dances.

Survivors include his wife; five daughters, Barbara BOEDING and husband Bryan of Burlington, Sheryl WOERDEMAN and husband Bernard of St. Paul, Iowa, Linda KRUSE and husband Victor of Houhgton, Sandra CARKHUFF of Mount Pleasant and Andrea WILLIS and husband Steve of Mount Pleasant; 14 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and one stepgrandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Walter ZUEHLKE and Alvin ZUEHLKE; one sister, Ruth M. MILLER; and one grandson.

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