DeLozier, Joyce Marie (Messerschmidt) (1929 – 2018)

DELOZIER, MESSERSCHMIDT, HEITZ, SAFILIAN, ALLEN, RANDALL

Posted By: Denise Wurner (email)
Date: 1/4/2019 at 00:46:46

Name of deceased: Joyce Marie DeLozier (nee Messerschmidt)

Aged: 89 yrs, 8 mo, 29 days

Residence: Dunlap, IA

Born: March 4, 1929; Shelby, Shelby County, IA

Died: Dec. 3, 2018; Dunlap Specialty Center, Dunlap, Harrison and Crawford Counties, IA

Funeral services: Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018; Fouts Funeral Home, Woodbine, IA

Survived by: Husband of 69 years, Ed DeLozier of Dunlap, IA; children, James DeLozier (spouse, Deb) of Dunlap, IA, Sally (spouse, Jim) Heitz of Omaha, NE, Royce DeLozier (spouse, Linda) of Hooper, NE, and Cynthia (spouse, Charles) Safilian of West Bloomfield, MI; 12 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; sister, Janice Allen of Council Bluffs, IA; other relatives and friends

Predeceased by: Parents, Herman and Edith (nee Randall) Messerschmidt; brother, Gene Messerschmidt

Education: Graduated from Shelby (IA) High School, Class of 1947

Religious affiliation: Member, United Methodist Church, Dunlap, IA

Military service: n/a

Marriage: Ed DeLozier; 1949; Yuma, AZ

Employment: Before her marriage, she worked at a laundromat in Omaha, NE for a short while; after her marriage, they lived in Iowa, Wisconsin and Colorado before settling in Dunlap, IA, when they began farming. She also worked at the Rose Vista Nursing Home in Woodbine, IA.

Hobbies/Interests: reading; gardening; walking; feeding the birds

Sources: foutsfuneralhome.com