SCHULTZ, Alice Axtell (Pruessner) 1926-2006
SCHULTZ, PRUESSNER, BENEDICT
Posted By: COUNTY COORDINATOR
Date: 5/28/2006 at 22:56:14
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OSAGE, IOWA — Alice Axtell Schultz, 79, of Osage, died Tuesday (May 23, 2006) at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage, Iowa.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 27, 2006, at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Osage, with the Rev. Dennis Hanson and the Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Interment will be at the Osage Cemetery. The casket will be opened at the church one hour before services on Saturday.
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, is in charge of arrangements -- (641) 732-3706.
[ From Mason City Globe Gazette online - www.globegazette.com - posted 5/25/2006 ]
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#2:Funeral services for Alice Axtell (Pruessner) Schultz, age 79, of Osage, Iowa, were held at on Saturday, May 27, 2006, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage, with Rev. Dennis Hanson and Rev. Roy Ott officiating.
Interment was at the Osage Cemetery in Osage. Alice died Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage.
Alice was born October 26, 1926, in St. Louis, Mo., the daughter of the Rev. George and Dorothy (Benedict) Pruessner. Alice was baptized, and confirmed in the Christian faith.
She attended and graduated from high school in Kewanee, Illinois. Alice then attended Elmhurst College, and completed her nurses' training (Registered Nurse) at the Evangelical Deaconess Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. She was a psychiatric nurse at St. Michael's Hospital in Grand Forks, N.D., an OB nurse in Bad Cannstatt, Germany, and a neonatal nurse at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Mich. Alice also worked at various nursing homes.
On September 6, 1948 Alice was united in marriage to Max Schultz at Kewanee, Illinois, at the St. Peter's Evangelical Church. Alice was very involved in the work of the church, compiling church bulletins, leading various organizations, leading children's choir, and teaching Sunday School, Bible study, Bible School and Confirmation classes. Reverend Max and Alice Schultz served churches in Geneseo, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Hebron, North Dakota; Detroit, Michigan; Roseville, Minnesota. and Akron, Ohio.
The Schultz's moved to Osage in 1986. Alice's chief interest and love was her family. She enjoyed the many trips she and her husband, Max, took to Germany.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and her sister Ruth Pruessner.
Alice is survived by her husband, the Rev. Max C. Schultz of Osage, three sons, Dr. George Schultz and his wife Elizabeth of St. Joseph, Mich., Rev. James Schultz and his wife LeeAnna of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Rev. Paul Schultz and his wife Dr. Denise Schultz of Baltimore, Maryland; two daughters, Dorothea Hanson and her husband Rev. Dennis Hanson of Osage, Elizabeth Kappler and her husband John Kappler of Shoreview, Minn.; her grandchildren, Dr. Sarah, James and Stephen Schultz, Katherine, Kristen and Daniel Hanson, Christopher and Andrew Schultz, Paul and his wife, Elizabeth Kappler, and Gretchen Kappler; and a great-grandchild Alan Kappler.
Arrangements were made by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage, (641)732-3706.
[ Original obit posted May 31, 2006 on www.mcpress.com -- Mitchell County Press online ]
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