Beckmann, Verina M. 1918-2003

BECKMANN, WIEDERHOLT, PICK

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/13/2007 at 16:21:24

REMSEN, Iowa -- Verina M. Beckmann, 85, of Remsen died Monday, Sept. 22, 2003, at Happy Siesta Health Care Center in Remsen following a lengthy illness.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen, with the Rev. Timothy Johnson officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Friday, with a St. Mary's Guild rosary at 3 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m., all at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Mrs. Beckmann was born Jan. 27, 1918, in rural Remsen, the daughter of Ben and Catherine (Pick) Wiederholt. She was raised in the Remsen area and received her education at both Union and St. Mary's Catholic schools. She then did domestic work in the Remsen area.

On Feb. 24, 1941, she married Frank Beckmann in Remsen. The couple lived near Remsen, where they were engaged in farming. They moved into Remsen in the fall of 1972. She had been a resident of Happy Siesta Health Care Center since Sept. 17, 2001.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, the church guild, Ladies Catholic Order of Foresters and the Ladies Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She enjoyed golfing, bowling and playing cards.

She is survived by her husband, Frank of Remsen; two sons and their wives, Larry and Karen, and Dale and Betty, all of Remsen; a daughter and her husband, Mary and Buzz Vermeer of Wahpeton, Iowa; a son-in-law and his wife, Larry and Linda George of Shenandoah, Iowa; nine grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; four great-stepgrandchildren; three half brothers, Urban Wiederholt and his wife, Rita, and Bernard Wiederholt and his wife, Elaine, all of Le Mars, Iowa, and Marvin Wiederholt of Cherokee, Iowa; and two sisters-in-law, Helen Wiederholt of Sioux City, and Blanche Wiederholt of Remsen.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her stepmother, Amanda Wiederholt; a daughter, Janice George; a grandson, Nolan George; a granddaughter, Janice George; two brothers, Vitus and Ermine Wiederholt; two half brothers, Luverne and Leonard Wiederholt; and a sister-in-law, Mary Ellen Wiederholt Boden.

Pallbearers will be Dan Beckmann, Evan George, Brian and Jason Beckmann, Russ Schroeder, Matt Homan, Josh Vermeer and Roger Kredit. Honorary pallbearers will be Michelle Schroeder, Jaime Homan, Erin George, Jackie, Stacy and Debbie Beckmann, Niki Kredit and Kim Vermeer.

[Part of the Darrell Easton Obituary Collection; source: Sioux City Journal]