DAMMANN, LuEtta Mathilda (Russman) 1929-2007

DAMMANN, RUSSMAN, POPKES

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 9/23/2008 at 20:19:06

LuEtta Mathilda Dammann was born on January 4, 1929, the daughter of Calvin and Henrietta (Popkes) Russman in rural Ellsworth, Rock county, Minnesota. She grew up on the farm there and attended Little Rock, Lyon county, Iowa Country School. On April 28, 1952, she was united in marriage to Kenneth Dammann at the Salem Reformed Church in Little Rock. Lu was a homemaker and cared for her family most of her life. She worked with Kenny in the Locker Plant wrapping meat. She also worked for the Parkview Manor Nursing Home in Ellsworth, Minnesota for several years.

She was a member of the Salem Reformed Church Willing Workers, Elgin Homemakers and a 4-H club leader. Lu loved gardening, flowers, and always put others needs before her own. She enjoyed her families time to¬gether, especially with her grandchildren. Lu loved to play the organ and piano. She never learned a single note and played every song you would ask her, by ear. She played many times for the residents of the George and Ellsworth nursing homes.

This past Monday, July 9, 2007, Lu passed away at the Osceola Community Hospital in Sibley, Iowa at the age of seventy-eight.

Lu is survived by her husband of fifty-five years, Kenneth Dammann; three children, Tim (wife Lisa) Dammann of Little Rock, Miriam (husband Paul) Cunningham of Round Lake, Minnesota and Naomi (husband Bruce) Lubben of Worthington, Minnesota; seven grandchildren, Thomas and special friend Angie Taarud, Sarah and Benjamin Cunningham of Round Lake, Minnesota, Brett Dammann of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Jordan Dammann of Little Rock, and Stephanie and Kristi Lubben of Worthington, Minnesota; as well as many other family members, nieces, nephew and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Calvin and Henrietta Russman; and one sister, Marilyn Heidebrink.

Funeral Services for LuEtta were held on Thursday, July 12, 2007 at Salem Reformed Church of Little Rock, Iowa with interment at Pleasant View Cemetery, Little Rock, Iowa.

(From Funeral Program)