Penning, Darlene 1947-2004

PENNING, MOUSEL

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 10:58:10

REMSEN, Iowa -- Darlene Penning, 56, of Remsen died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004, at a Sioux City hospital following a lengthy illness with cancer and COPD.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Remsen, with the Rev. Timothy Johnson officiating. Burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery, Granville, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. Wednesday, with a parish rosary at 3 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 8 p.m., at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Darlene was born Nov. 23, 1947, in Le Mars, Iowa, the daughter of Vincent and Florentine (Mousel) Penning. She was raised and educated in the Granville area, graduating from Spalding High School in 1966. She then moved to Sioux City, where she attended Stewart's Beauty College, graduating in 1967.

She was employed at Eastend Beauty Shop in Morningside from 1967 to 1971, then at Hair Boutique in Le Mars until the late 1980s. She then worked at Twin Beauty Salon in Le Mars until March 2000, when she had to retire because of health reasons. She moved to Remsen in 1987, and had been a resident of Embassy Rehabilitation Care Center in Sergeant Bluff since December 2003.

She was a member of St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Oyens, Iowa. She was an avid bird watcher and enjoyed fishing, her cats and spending time with her two grandsons.

She is survived by a daughter and her husband, Kimberly and Christopher Stoos and their two sons, Joshua, 9, and Colby, 5, all of Sergeant Bluff; two sisters, Geraldine and her husband, Ronald Anderson of Glendale, Ariz., and Marilyn Champion of Lake View, Iowa; two brothers and their wives, Ron and Diane of Tucson, Ariz., and Ken and Pat of Omaha; a sister-in-law, Muriel Penning of Le Mars; and a brother-in-law, Robert Burkard of Le Mars.

She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Lowell in infancy, Dennis and Lloyd; a sister, Lois Burkard; a brother-in-law, Martin Champion; and a nephew and three nieces.

Honorary pallbearers will be Joshua and Colby Stoos.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection