Hemesath, Julia Mary (Lechtenberg) -- 1912 - 2003

HEMESATH, LECHTENBERG, UHLENHAKE, CAHILL, CREMER, HUBER, BODENSTEINER, THUENTE

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 5/27/2004 at 19:43:57

Julia Hemesath

Telegraph Herald - Wednesday, May 21, 2003

CALMAR, Iowa - Julia (Lechtenberg) Hemesath, 91, of Calmar, died Monday, May 19, 2003, in Ossian.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Calmar. Burial will be the church cemetery. A bus will be leaving St. Columbkille's Parish, Dubuque, at 8:15 a.m. and will return at 3:15 p.m. Thursday to attend the services. Call the parish for a reservation.

Surviving are her husband, Andrew; two sons, Phil and Dan; three daughters, Sister Carol, who is the parish nurse at St. Columbkille's, Dubuque, Nancy and Norma.

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Additional Obit

Source: Cresco Times-Plain Dealer May 28, 2003

Julia Hemesath services held

Funeral services for Julia Hemesath of Calmar were held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 22 at St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Calmar with Rev. Donald Hawes officiating. Interment was in St. Aloysius Catholic Cemetery in Calmar. Pallbearers were her grandchildren and nephews. Schluter Balik Funeral Home French Chapel handled the arrangements.

Julia, 91, died Monday, May 19, 2003 at the Ossian Senior Hospice in Ossian following a long illness.

Julia Mary Hemesath was born Mary{sic} 23, 1912 on the family farm near Festina, the daughter of Herman and Catherine (Uhlenhake) Lechtenberg. She attended our Lady of Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Festina and later went on to work at the Divine Word Mission House in Techny, IL.

On May 5, 1936 she married Andrew Hemesath at Our Lady of Seven Dolors in Festina. They settled on a farm west of Ossian for a few years and then moved to a farm between Calmar and Ossian. They retired in 1975, and moved to Calmar where she was a member of St. Aloysius Catholic Church and the Calmar Senior Citizens.

She enjoyed gardening, crocheting, and baking.

She is survived by her husband Andrew of Ossian; three daughters: Carol Hemesath, OSF, of Dubuque, Nancy Hemesath of Omaha, NE, and Norma Cahill of Minneapolis; two sons: Dan of Clovis, CA and Phil of Decorah; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandson; and three sisters: Odelia Cremer of Festina, Catherine Huber of Lawler, and Rita Bodensteiner of New Hampton.

Julia was preceded in death by one granddaughter; her parents; three sisters: Edvina Thuente, Bertha Thuente, and Bridget Lechtenbert{sic}; and four brothers: Joe, Greg, Irenaeus, and Ted.

Transcribed by Joy Moore from a newspaper clipping submitted by Janice Sowers.

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