Foxen, Lula 1906-2001

FOXEN, SMITH, SCHENK

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 6/7/2007 at 21:48:05

REMSEN, Iowa -- Mrs. John (Lula) Foxen, 95, of Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly of Remsen, died Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2001, at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls.

Services will be 2:30 p.m. Friday at Dow Rummel Retirement Village in Sioux Falls, with the Rev. Donald Slaven officiating. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Friday in St. Mary's Cemetery, Remsen. Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with a Christian Mothers and Catholic Daughters of America rosary at 4 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at Fisch Funeral Home in Remsen.

Mrs. Foxen was born April 7, 1906, in Kearney, Neb., the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Schenk) Smith. Lula was raised and educated in Kearney and graduated from Kearney High School in 1924. She worked for 34 years for John Deere Co. in Sioux City and Omaha. She retired in 1966 and moved to Remsen with her husband, John. He died Jan. 19, 1968. Lula moved to Dow Retirement Village in Sioux Falls on April 18, 1992.

She was a member of St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls., St. Mary's Catholic Church, Christian Mothers, Catholic Daughters of America, Catholic Women's Missionary Association and Senior Citizens, all in Remsen.

Survivors include two stepsons, Floyd Foxen and his wife, Betty of California, and John Foxen of Shepherdstown, W.V.; two sisters-in-law, Estelle Smith of Temple, Texas, and Lena Foxen of Anaheim, Calif.; a special friend, Carole Voss of Cherokee, Iowa; a cousin and her husband, Frances and Mel Risting of Sioux Falls; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, John and Joe Smith; and a sister, Margaret York.

~source: The Sioux City Journal