Utesch, Madeleine Bunkers 1919-2000

UTESCH, BUNKERS, AMICK, ALEXANDER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 3/2/2009 at 20:10:58

NAME OF DECEASED & AGE: Madeleine Bunkers Utesch, 80, of LeMars, IA
DATE OF DEATH: Friday, Aug. 25, 2000
PLACE OF DEATH: …at Floyd Valley Hospital, LeMars, IA
CAUSE OF DEATH:
DATE OF BIRTH: Nov. 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH: Spencer, Iowa
PARENTS: Stephen and Ethel (Amick) Alexander
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 1st MARRIAGE: Roman Bunkers, April 24, 1941, at St. Joseph Catholic Church, LeMars, IA
SPOUSE & DATE & PLACE of 2nd MARRIAGE: Ken Utesch, Jan. 15, 2000, at St. John’s Lutheran Church, LeMars, IA.
OCCUPATION: She graduated in 1940 from Samuel School of Cosmetology in Sioux City, IA. After her first marriage they lived in Remsen from 1946 to 1977. She had worked fro Hatz Market, First Trust and Savings Bank and Remsen Lumber Company. They lived on East Lake Okoboji, Iowa, from 1977 to 1986. She worked for Carpenter Interiors in Spirit Lake, Iowa, for several years until her retirement in 1981. In 1986, they moved to LeMars. Her husband died May 6, 1986.
MEMBER OF: St. John’s Lutheran Church
SURVIVORS: …include her husband of LeMars; two daughters and their husbands, Mary Ann and Gerald Goebel of Granville, Iowa, and Jan and Ron Ernst of LeMars; a son and his wife, Bob and Marcy Bunkers of Sioux City; 14 grandchildren; nine great grandchildren; a step daughter and her husband, Cheryl and Greg Myhr of Maple Grove, Minn.; two sisters-in-law, Sr. Margaret Bunkers of Dubuque, Iowa, and Stasia Alexander of Des Moines; and many nieces and nephews.
PRECEDED in DEATH by: ..a sister, Audrey Pullen and a brother, Victor Alexander.
PLACE OF BURIAL: St. Marys Cemetery, Remsen, IA
NEWSPAPER SOURCE & DATE: The Sioux City Journal

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