Gronemeyer, Evelyn Klemme 1931-2003

GRONEMEYER, KLEMME, MARIENAU, BERG

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 22:14:36

HAWARDEN, Iowa -- Evelyn Klemme Gronemeyer, 72, of Hawarden died Saturday, Dec. 20, 2003, at Akron City Convalescent Care Center in Akron, Iowa.

Services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hawarden, with the Rev. Todd Bunge officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery in rural Akron. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.

Evelyn Marienau was born Nov. 20, 1931, at Brunsville, Iowa, the daughter of Ben and Ida (Berg) Marienau.

She married Norman Klemme on Feb. 10, 1950. They lived in Le Mars, Iowa, prior to moving to the Klemme home farm.

Evelyn was a wonderful homemaker and mother. She enjoyed crocheting, embroidery and doing craft projects. Evelyn played guitar in a band for many years that performed at different care centers in the area. She was a member of the Siouxland Music Association and was in a bowling league with her husband.

After Norman's death, Evelyn moved to Le Mars. She married Glenn Gronemeyer and they lived in Hawarden. After his death, Evelyn loved to spend time with her sister and brother-in-law, Eileen and Hank in Hawarden.

Evelyn is survived by three daughters, Gloria Kowalke of Sioux City, Gail Walrod and her husband, Robert of Akron, and Ellen Renken and her special friend, Dale Manley of Struble, Iowa; 10 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three brothers, Norm Marienau and his wife, Neva of Hawarden, Leonard Marienau and his wife, Elenor of Ireton, Iowa, and Bob Marienau of Anaheim, Calif.; two sisters, Eileen Vander Helm of Hawarden, and Lorraine Luksan and her husband, Don of Le Mars.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, Dec. 21, 2003--part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection