Darlene Mae Wacheldorf 1927 - 1999

WACHELDORF, RILEY, LEISINGER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/9/2014 at 16:53:45

8 September 1999

MAPLETON, Iowa — Darlene Mae Wacheldorf, 72, of Mapleton died Tuesday, Sept. 7, 1999, at her residence.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter's United Church of Christ in Mapleton, with the Rev. Bob Fritzmeier officiating. Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. officiated by the Rev. Kevin Huss, at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Mrs. Wacheldorf was born July 10, 1927, in Castana, Iowa, the daughter of Lewis and Nettie "Grace" (Riley) Leisinger. She attended grade school and high school in Castana and Mapleton.

She married Leonard Wacheldorf on Nov. 9, 1946, in Mapleton. The couple made their home in Mapleton.

She was employed with First State Bank, Tierney Drug and Jim Gaukel for many years, retiring in 1984.

She was a member of St. Peter's United Church of Christ.

Survivors include her husband; four children, Randy and his wife, Barb, of Moorhead, Iowa, Dennis and his wife, Nancy, of Omaha, Neb., Greg and his wife, Lisa, of Harrisburg, N.C. and Jan of Mesa, Ariz.; seven grandchildren, Rosemary, Denny Michael, Lori, Kandi, Benjamin, Chad and Nicole; four great-grandchildren; four sisters, Dorothy and her husband, Raymond Archer, and Gladys Phipps, all of Onawa, Iowa, Donna and her husband, Marvin Larson, of Ute, Iowa, and Norma and her husband, Dean Kohler, of Kansas; and two brothers, Freddie Leisinger of Mapleton and Vernon "Pete" Leisinger of Moville, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a grandson, Stuart Wacheldorf.