Lotus K. Mumm (1917-2007)

MUMM

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 10/22/2007 at 22:17:56

Lotus K. Mumm, age 90, passed away on Saturday at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.

Lotus was born April 10, 1917, on a farm near Harlan, Iowa, to the late Alta and Peter Petersen. She attended the nearby country school through eighth grade. She then attended Harlan High School and graduated in 1934. She taught four years in the rural schools of Shelby County. On September 9, 1939, she was united in marriage to Vernon Mumm of Staplehurst, Neb., at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. The couple's first home was in Austin, Minn. They then moved to Seward, Neb., for a short time before moving to Council Bluffs in 1943, which has been her home ever since. Lotus worked as a substitute teacher for the Council Bluffs Schools for 25 years. She also served as Sunday School Superintendent and teacher at Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church, where she was a charter member at the time of her death. She was a member of Retired Teachers Association and served in the Church Ladies Circle. Next to her family, teaching was her great love. As a little girl she always dreamed of following in her mother's footsteps in becoming a teacher. This dream was doubly fulfilled when three of her children also chose to be educators.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Vernon in 1993; and by her brother, Robert Petersen in 2007.

Survivors include 2 daughters, Karen (Patrick) Pavao, of Lihue, Hawaii, Nancy Mumm, of Council Bluffs; 3 sons, Douglas (Karen) Mumm, of Lake Charles, La., Dave (Jody) Mumm, of Springfield, Mo., and Donald, of Lincoln, Neb.; 9 grandchildren; and 1 great grandson; nieces, nephews and cousins.

Visitation Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. with prayer service at 6:30 p.m. Funeral service on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Cutler-O'Neill-Meyer-Woodring Chapel. Burial in Ridgewood Cemetery.

Memorials to Shepherd of the Valley Church or The American Cancer Society.

Published in The Daily Nonpareil on 10/22/2007