Bunkers, Madeleine 1919-2000

UTESCH, BUNKERS, ALEXANDER, AMICK

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/6/2017 at 23:13:16

Madeleine Bunkers Utesch

LE MARS, Iowa - Madeleine Bunkers Utesch, 80, of Le Mars died Friday, Aug. 25, 2000, at Floyd Valley Hospital.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at St. John's Lutheran Church ELCA, with the Rev. Gary Landsness officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in Remsen, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in Le Mars.

Mrs. Utesch was born Nov. 4, 1919, in Spencer, Iowa, the daughter of Stephen and Ethel (Amick) Alexander. She attended country school and graduated from Gillett Grove Consolidated High School in 1936. She graduated in 1940 from Samuel School of Cosmetology in Sioux City. She married Roman Bunkers April 24, 1941, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Le Mars. They lived in Remsen from 1946 to 1977. She had worked for 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 Le Mars. He died May 6, 1986. She married Ken Utesch Jan. 15, 2000, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Le Mars.

She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and Sarah Circle. She had been a longtime member of Christian Mothers, Catholic Daughters of America, Order of the Foresters, Brentwood Auxiliary, Plymouth Manor Promoters and Le Mars Senior Citizens Center. She enjoyed painting and playing the organ.

Survivors include her husband of Le Mars; two daughters and their husbands, Mary Ann and Gerald Goebel of Granville, Iowa, and Jan and Ron Ernst of Le Mars; a son and his wife, Bob and Marcy Bunkers of Sioux City; 14 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a stepdaughter 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.

She also was preceded in death by a sister, Audrey Pullen, and a brother, Victor Alexander.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Mike Ernst, Brad Borchers, Chris Bunkers, Garry Goebel, Bill Goebel, Jim Goebel and Dan Goebel.

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