Jessica Marie PIERSCHBACHER

PIERSCHBACHER, SMITH, BINNING, WOOKEY, FIDERLEIN, BOLES, PEDERSON

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 2/28/2009 at 12:47:23

Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Union County, Iowa
July 13, 2005

NOTICE of DEATH - JESSICA MARIE PIERSCHBACHER

Jessica PIERSCHBACHER, 16, of Tingley died of cancer July 12, 2005, at Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr.

Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Union County, Iowa
Friday July 15, 2005

OBITUARY - JESSICA MARIE PIERSCHBACHER

Jessica PIERSCHBACHER, 16, of Tingley died of cancer July 12, 2005, at Ringgold County Hospital in Mount Ayr.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 15, at the United Methodist Church in Tingley. The Rev. Brian OLIVER and the Rev. Ainslee BRILLO will officiate the service. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery, southeast of Grand River. Visitation will be 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the First Christian Church in Mount Ayr. Students, staff or friends are also invited to celebrate Jessica's life with memory making at the Mount Ayr Public Library basement 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday.

Memorials may be directed to the United Methodist Church in Tingley or Hospice of Central Iowa.

Wilson-Watson and Armstrong Funeral Home, 205 W. Monroe St., Mount Ayr has charge of arrangements.

Jessica PIERSCHBACHER, daughter of Sandra (SMITH) and Curtis PIERSCHBACHER, was born March 23, 1989, in Creston. She would have been a junior at Mount Ayr High School this fall. She worked at Silver Spur Restaurant in Grand River and recently at Peggy Sue's in Mount Ayr. She was a member of Tingley United Methodist Church; Wishard, Ellston and Tingley Church youth group; FFA; Tingley Toppers 4-H Club; 4-H county council; Mount Ayr Library Club and Drama Club. She attended the 2003 Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn., under the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Survivors include her parents, Curtis and Sandy PIERSCHBACHER of Tingley; two brothers, Nate PIERSCHBACHER of Lamoni and Weston PIERSCHBACHER of Tingley; grandparents Norma (husband Gene) BINNING of Grand River and Jim (wife Mary Ann) SMITH of Beaconsfield; great-grandmother Marie WOOKEY of Grand River; aunts and uncles Robert (wife Dawn) SMITH of Durant, Debbie (husband Chad) FIDERLEIN of West Branch, Todd (wife Judy) PEDERSON of Ankeny; Max (wife Brenda) BOLES of Grand River and Darin (wife Shelly) WOOKEY of Murray; cousins and other relatives.

She was preceded in death by grandfathers Floyd PIERSCHBACHER and Duane WOOKEY and great-grandmothers Mildred SMITH and Geneva PIERSCHBACHER.

NOTE: Jessica was a member of the 2004 Iowa Arts Council State Fair Camera Corps, and won an honorable mention in the 2006 Iowa Character Competition.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, February of 2009