Mabel Sophia Gosch 1917-2010

GOSCH LINKE ALDAG

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 11/10/2010 at 22:29:49

Sioux City Journal
4 March 2010

UTE, Iowa -- Mabel "Mae" Sophia (Linke) Gosch, 92, of Ute passed away Monday, March 1, 2010, at Pleasant View Nursing Home in Whiting, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Ute, with the Rev. Ed Brandt officiating. Burial will be in St. Paul Lutheran Church, Charter Oak, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present 5 to 7 p.m. and a Scripture service at 7 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Armstrong Funeral Home in Ute.

Mae S. Linke was born May 15, 1917, in Hayes Township, Ida County, Iowa, the daughter of Fred and Minnie (Aldag) Linke. As a young child she was raised on a dairy farm. She lived one mile east and two miles north of Ute and attended St. Clair Country School all but one year. She then attended Lutheran School in Ute. She was a member of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ute.

She married John E. Gosch on April 26, 1939, and lived in Berne, Iowa, until 1944. They moved to a farm south of Ute, where they farmed for 27 years. They were blessed with three children, Aaron, Raymond and Juliet. They retired and moved into a mobile home on the west end of Main Street in Ute in 1971. John and Mae continued a tree service and wood working hobby. John and Mae were compassionate about building unique projects out of wood like the U.S. flag that was displayed at the Iowa State Fair in 1976 for the 200-year celebration and is now displayed in a museum in Onawa, Iowa. John died December 31, 1996.

For the last 13 years, Mae was a resident at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting, Iowa, where she enjoyed church services, volunteer work, choir, reading to young children, and her many puzzles. She was passionate about volunteer work with the hospice care at Pleasant View, where over a five year period she spent many hours with other residents who were alone for various reasons. Her philosophy was that "no one should die alone."

Those survivors left to cherish her memory include two sons, Aaron Gosch and his wife, Brenda of Wells, Maine, and Ray Gosch and his wife, Sharon of Charter Oak, Iowa; one daughter, Juliet Powers of Hancock, Iowa; one sister, Lois Waltermeyer; one brother, Delano Linke; and one sister-in-law, Alice Gosch of Onawa, Iowa; 16 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; five great-stepgrandchildren; five great-great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Minnie Linke; her husband, John Gosch; one granddaughter, Holly; two brothers, Henry and Harvey; and several other infants.

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