Mrs Louise O Ernst 1924-1986

ERNST, WEIFENBACH, ROSENBOCHER, SCHLIE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/2/2009 at 20:21:56

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Mrs Louise O Ernst, 61, of Schleswig, Iowa, died Sunday, January 19, 1986 in a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska after a short Illness.
Services were at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 22, 1986, in the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schelwig, Iowa. The Reverend Richard Nelson officiated. Burial was in the Mount Hope Cemetery in Mapleton, Iowa. A prayer service was at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 21, 1986, in the Walter Funeral Home in Mapleton, Iowa.
Mrs Ernst, the former Louise Weifenbach, was born August 16, 1924, in Ewing, Nebraska, and came with her parents, Chris and Olga (Rosenbocher) Weifenbach, of Mapleton, Iowa, where she was a young girl.
She married Wilbur Schlie October 30, 1943, in Ute, Iowa. He died in 1946. She married Steve Ernst August 14, 1948, in Onawa, Iowa. They lived in the Danbury and Mapleton communities from 1948 until 1963, when they moved to the Ricketts and Schleswig area. In 1975, they moved into Schleswig, Iowa. Mr Ernst died December 12, 1975.
She was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, two daughters, one son, four brothers and one sister.
Survivors include four daughters, Mrs Robert (Shirley) Jordon of Blair, Nebraska, Mrs Tim (Betty) Daniel of Storm Lake, Iowa, Mrs Marc (Linda) Hamann of Holstein, Iowa and Mrs Rick (Sally) Ruffalo of Sioux City, Iowa; three brothers, Henry of Mapleton, Iowa, Alfred of Little Sioux and George of Gunnison, Colorado; three sisters, Mrs Frieda Kurth of Mapleton, Iowa, Mrs Anna Fick of Schleswig, Iowa and Mrs Alma Staatz of Great Falls, Montana and five grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Marvin Albertsen, Darren Woebke, Randy Goodman, Kevin Christie, Mark Knight and Bert Dimig.