DIETERICH, Evelyn Frances (nee Billings) 1920-2004

DIETERICH, BILLINGS, DENNER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/19/2009 at 11:30:14

EVELYN FRANCES (BILLINGS) DIETERICH

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA — Evelyn F. Dieterich, 83, of St. Ansgar died on Sunday (Sept. 19, 2004) at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Byron Northwick officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar.

Evelyn Frances Billings was born on Nov. 26, 1920, in Chickasaw County, Iowa, to Leslie and May (Denner) Billings. She lived in Fayette, Iowa until she was 3 years of age. Her family then moved to New Hampton. At age 6 she moved to Osage, Iowa.

Evelyn was baptized and confirmed by the Rev. O.C. Myhre at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church in Meroa, Iowa. She attended schools in Mitchell County and graduated from Osage High School in 1939.

Evelyn taught rural school in Cedar Township south of Osage for one year and then entered the Kahler School of Nursing in Rochester, Minn., for one year.

Evelyn married Lawrence Dieterich in 1941 at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, Osage. They lived on a farm half a mile east of St. Ansgar for two years where she helped with 4-H.

They moved to a farm three and a half miles southwest of St. Ansgar in 1943 where she helped with farming and the raising of their children.

An important part of her life was providing support to her husband, Lawrence, in his many activities. In 1982 they moved to their present home in St. Ansgar.

Evelyn was active in the community, participating in Music Mothers where she was chairperson for two years, a member of the I.C. Federated Club in St. Ansgar for several years, a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church where she was chairperson of the Leaders Circle and a member of the Mary Circle.

Her hobbies included bridge, gardening and reading.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, LaDonna Mae in infancy; brother, Covel Billings; and sister, Beverly Allison.

Evelyn is survived by her husband, Lawrence, of St. Ansgar; daughters, Rita Kicherer and husband, David, of Newton, Kan., and Darla Stiles and husband William of West Des Moines; son, Dennis and his wife Ann of St. Ansgar; seven grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; sister, Betty Gast and her husband Birney of Osage.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (641) 713-4920.

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