Mary Jane Klotz 1917-2004

KLOTZ, DIEHL, SCHLIEFF

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/1/2009 at 21:45:11

Mary Jane Klotz
Age 87-Died December 27, 2004
Mary Jane Klotz of Mapleton died Monday, December 27, 2004 in Mapleton.

Memorial service was held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 4 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton with Rev. Scott Fiege officiating. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Mapleton. Norma Jean Dose was the organist for the service and the congregation sang, "In the Garden", "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Amazing Grace".

Mary Jane Klotz was born in Troy, South Dakota to George and Lewellyn (Diehl) Schlieff. She had one brother, George, now deceased, and a sister, Helen Petersen, of Anthon, Iowa. Her childhood and school years were spent in Storm Lake, Iowa where she later earned a teacher's degree at Buena Vista College.

After teaching school for several years, she accepted a job with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. and later with military intelligence at the Pentagon during World War II.

She rode a troop train cross country to the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in El Centre, California where she married Andrew Klotz on July 8, 1944.

After the war, they resided in Schleswig, Iowa where they began their careers in the grocery business. Two children, Peggy and Bradley, were born there. With the purchase of a larger store, they moved the family to Mapleton, where they owned and operated Klotz Food Market until retirement.

Both Andy and Mary Jane enjoyed summers at their cabin at Lake Okoboji, Iowa. After Andy's death, December 26, 1994, Mary Jane continued to live spring until fall at the lake, planting her large vegetable garden and spending time with her many friends before returning to Mapleton for the winter.

She is survived by her two children; her son, Brad Klotz and his wife, Shirley, of Plano, Texas and their two boys, Jason Klotz and his wife, Heather, and John Klotz, and his wife, Natalee, and their daughter, Avery, all of Allen, Texas; her daughter, Peggy and her husband, Rob Whitsit of Newnan, Georgia and their four children, Leslie and husband, Bill Davenport, of Austin, Texas, Kate and husband, Mike Wallace, of Little Rock, Arkansas, Jamie Hunt of Lincoln, Nebraska, and Molly Hunt of Washington, D.C.

She nurtured us with her love and caring, her food and friendship and though we will each miss those special moments we have spent with her through the years, we rejoice in knowing that she is now peacefully in her heavenly home.

Arrangements were made under the direction of the Armstrong Funeral Home of Mapleton.

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