Toenjes, Lillian Mrs. Wendell 1924-1994

TOENJES, JUHL, NIELSEN

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 3/4/2010 at 07:30:18

LILLIAN TOENJES
LE MARS, Iowa - Lillian Toenjes, 70, of rural Le Mars died Wednesday, Dec. 7, 1994, at her home following a long illness. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Ireton, with the Rev. H.H. Schauland officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery. Visitation will be 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday at the Porter-Dow Funeral Home in Ireton. A prayer service will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday, with the family present 7 to 8:30 p.m~, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Ireton. Mrs. Toenjes was born Sept. 16, 1924, the daughter of Bert and Martha (Juhl) Nielsen. She was raised on a farm in Fredonia Township, Plymouth County near Oyens. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Gethsemane Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ovens. She attended rural schools in Fredonia Township and high school in Orange City. The family moved to a farm near Maurice and she graduated from Maurice High School in 1941. She attended NBT School in Sioux City and worked as a secretary for the National Biscuit Co. On Aug. 27, 1948, she married Wendell Toenjes at St. John's Lutheran Church, rural Ireton. They resided on a farm southwest of Maurice the last 46 years.Mrs. Toenjes was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Lutharan Womens Missionary League.
Survivors include her husband; three daughters and their husbands, Carol and Jeff Sylvester of Columbus, Ohio, Sharon and Keith Wendte of Chicago, and Jan and Allen Denoar Ames; three sons and their wives, Ted and Connie Toenjes of Urbandale, Stanley and Joyce Toenjes of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Rev, Alan and Joyce Toenjes of Belvidere, Ill.; five grandchildren; a sister, Helen Nielsen Eckstein of Chanhassen, Minn., and four brothers, Harold and his wife, Florence of Sioux City, Arnold of Hull, Edwin of Onawa and Philip and his wife, Wilma of Dakota City. She was preceded in death by her parents.
Source; Local newspaper after 12-7-1994