Teresa P. Buche Friederich (1929-2016)
FRIEDERICH, BUCHE
Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 8/6/2016 at 19:31:50
Obituary From Adams Soderstrum Funeral Home, Story County, Iowa.
Teresa P. Friederich
April 12, 1929 - July 7, 2016Obituary for Teresa P. Friederich
Though the distance between Teresa Buche Friederich’s birthplace of Lake Andes, S.D., and her final resting place in the St. Thomas Aquinas columbarium in Ames, on July 15, 2016, is a mere 300 miles, Teresa crisscrossed the country and the Atlantic Ocean many times during her 87 years on this earth. From attending the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair, to her two residences in Germany (one as a new bride and the other 10 years later as the mother of five in a village with no other English speakers), and multiple visits to her family’s ancestral home in Glenmore, Ireland, Teresa embraced new experiences and new people with passion.
She graduated from St. Teresa’s College in Winona, Minn., and completed an internship in Cedar Rapids before commencing a 35-year career as a medical technologist. When she met the handsome, fair-haired, exchange student Karl Friederich in 1952 while working in Omaha, they embarked on the ultimate adventure, marriage. Throughout their multiple moves, Teresa re-created warm and loving homes for the family, including Karl and Teresa’s five children (Charles, Catherine, John, Barbara, and James).
After relocating to Ames in 1967 and working at Mary Greeley, Teresa taught students in the CLA/MLT program at DMACC in Ankeny until adverse effects from a subarachnoid hemorrhage led to early retirement. Never one to be idle, she established a second career as a community volunteer. She taught English as a second language to recently arrived immigrants, counseled young women at Birthright, staffed the information desk at City Hall and the counter at Worldly Goods, and was always to first in line to lend a hand to neighbors and friends whenever the need arose. She turned the lessons that she learned as a survivor of ovarian cancer into insights and help for others through her work at Homeward Hospice. Teresa found her true second home at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, where she attended daily Mass, coached young adults on the intricacies of the Catholic faith through the RCIA program, and served as Eucharistic minister. She exhibited her love for family, friends, and even strangers by simultaneously feeding their bellies and their souls, opening her home and her heart to numerous international students and people recently arrived in the US.
Teresa passed away July 7, 2016.
Teresa Buche Friederich’s legacy lives on in her five children, 15 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren, who will remember her always as a strong, intelligent, brave, faith-filled, and loving woman.
In lieu of flowers, please feel free to honor Teresa with a donation to your favorite charity or Columbus Hospice in Columbus, Ga.
A Mass of Christian Burial
JUL 15. 10:30 AM
St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church & Catholic Student Center
2210 Lincoln Way
Ames, IA, US, 50010
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