M. Joanne Poggenpohl

POGGENPOHL, HANNON, HEATH, SCHMITZ, SUTTON, JONES, GRAMM

Posted By: Tara (email)
Date: 5/7/2012 at 13:58:59

M. Joanne Poggenpohl, 75, of Iowa City, died Tuesday at Iowa City Rehabilitation and Health Care Center after a short illness.

Funeral Services will be held Saturday at 1:00 pm at Lensing Funeral Service in Iowa City. Visitation will begin Friday from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Iowa City.

Joanne was born August 10, 1936 in Cedar Rapids, the daughter of George and Mary (Hannon) Heath. She graduated from Immaculate Conception High School in Cedar Rapids in 1954 and received an associates of arts degree from Kirkwood Community College.

She married Kenneth Schmitz January 15, 1955 in Cedar Rapids. The couple later divorced.
On December 7, 1972, Mary married Harry Sutton in Iowa City. Harry passed away in 1985. On November 6, 1992, she married Charles Poggenpohl in Sharon Center. Charles died in 1993.

Joanne was a secretary at the University of Iowa College of Nursing – retiring in 1993.

She was a member of St. Patrick’s Church, Iowa City VFW Auxillary, Iowa City Eagle’s Auxillary and Iowa City Women of the Moose.

Survivors include her children, Donna Jones of Iowa City, Tim Schmitz (Shirley) of Oklahoma City, Tom Schmitz (Ilona) of Wylie, Texas and Don Schmitz (Linda Gramm) of Iowa City; grandchildren, Michael, Justin, Kenneth, Mike, Carol, Triena, Brandi and Rachel;
thirteen great-grandchildren and a sister in law Lillian of Minneapolis.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, a brother Paul Heath and a great-grandson Austin Jones.