Edna L. Englert 1902-2005

CHOPEK, RUMMELHART, ENGLERT

Posted By: michael (email)
Date: 3/26/2005 at 09:32:58

Edna L. Englert, 102, of 2710 East Washington Street died peacefully, Thursday, March 24, 2005 at her home.

Funeral Mass will be celebrated Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 11AM at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church with the Rev. Michael Phillips officiating. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call Monday from 4 to 7:30PM at Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service, where a Rosary will be recited at 5:15 PM and a Parish Vigil Service will be held at 7PM.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial fund has been established.

Edna was born July 9, 1902 in Iowa City, the daughter of Seraphean and Cecelia Chopek Rummelhart. She was a 1920 graduate of City High School and on January 14, 1926 she married Phil Englert at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church.

Edna had been the organist and choir director at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church, where she had played the organ for over sixty years. She was a member of the Altar and Rosary Society, Catholic Daughters of the Americas, of which she had been a Past Regent, and the National Catholic Society of Foresters. Edna had served these organizations in different leadership positions over the years.

Edna had received the papal honor given to lay people known as the Venerable Cross for the Church and Pontiff (Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice) by Pope John Paul II because of her distinguished service to the Church.

Edna loved her volunteer work at the Mercy Hospital Gift Shop and the Eldercraft Shop at the Senior Center as well as crocheting and knitting. She was an avid Hawkeye and Cubs fan.

She is survived by her daughter, Kay Englert of Iowa City and her son, John Englert and
and his friend, Jacqueline Fults of Elmhurst, Illinois; two grandchildren, Mark (Mila) Englert of St. Charles, Illinois and Amy Englert of Winston-Salem, North Carolina; two great-grandchildren Brian and Olivia; her niece and nephew, Sister Micheline Curtis and Tim Curtis.

Edna was preceded in death by her husband, two sisters Alice Curtis and Mary Schmidt, and one nephew Dan Megan.

Online condolences may be directed to www.lensingfuneral.com