Pick, Cecelia 1912-2004

PICK, PLETSCHETTE

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer
Date: 4/16/2007 at 10:46:04

ALTON, Iowa -- Cecelia Pick, 91, of Alton died Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004, at The Abbey of Le Mars in Le Mars, Iowa, after a brief illness.

Services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Alton, with the Revs. Anthony Pick and John Vakulskas with Bishop Lawrence D. Soens and other priests of the diocese in attendance. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a rosary at 3 p.m. by St. Mary's Rosary Society, and a vigil prayer service at 7 p.m., at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen, Iowa.

Cecelia Pick was born Nov. 27, 1912, in rural Oyens, Iowa, the daughter of Peter and Mary (Feller) Pletschette. She was raised and educated in the Oyens areas. She attended Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Western Union College in Le Mars and then taught at various rural schools in the Remsen area for eight years.

On Nov. 27, 1940, she married Lawrence Pick at Le Mars. They made their home near Alton, where they were engaged in farming. They retired on the farm in 1975 and moved into Alton in 1984. Lawrence died April 15, 1990. Cecelia had been a resident of The Abbey of Le Mars since April of 2000.

She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, the church Guild and St. Mary's Rosary Society.

Survivors include five sons, Rev. Anthony of Coon Rapids, Iowa, Leander of Avoca, Minn., Philip and Walter, both of Alton and Ray and his wife, Janice of Albuquerque, N.M.; six grandchildren; and a brother-in-law, Leonard Bindner of Marcus, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Adam Peter in infancy; two brothers, Martin and Nick Pletschette; eight sisters, Philomene Pletschette in infancy, Mrs. Mike (Clara) Loutsch, Mrs. Hubert (Mathilda) Jochum, Mrs. Art (Christine) Schuster, Mrs. Albert (Regina) Miller, Mrs. Ike (Agnes) Swain, Mrs. William (Helen) Bindner and Mrs. Leonard (Mildred) Bindner.

Pallbearers will be Peter Bindner, William and Leo Jochum, Adam, Andrew and Marvin Pick.

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