Mary Gertrude Petrositch 1914 - 2009

PETROSITCH, ULLRICH, BRENNER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/15/2013 at 12:22:46

Sioux City Journal
2 December 2009

DANBURY, Iowa -- Mary Petrositch, 95, of Danbury entered her eternal rest Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, at Burgess Health Care Center in Onawa, Iowa.

Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Danbury, with the Rev. Terry Roder officiating. Burial will be in the Danbury Catholic Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today at the church, with a rosary by St. Mary's Rosary Society at 3:30 p.m. and a vigil wake service at 7 p.m. with Deacon Ray Rosburg officiating. Armstrong Funeral Home of Danbury and Mapleton, Iowa, is in charge of the arrangements.

Mary Gertrude Petrositch was born the second of seven children to John and Gertrude (Ullrich) Brenner on Nov. 26, 1914, Thanksgiving Day, on a farm north of Mapleton, Iowa. She celebrated her final birthday on Thanksgiving Day 2009. She attended St. Mary's Grade School in Mapleton and graduated from Mapleton High School with the class of 1932. She taught country school in the Mapleton-Danbury area until 1937.

On June 9, 1937, she was united in marriage to Albert "Butch" Petrositch at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mapleton. To this union three children were born. Mary and her husband owned and operated the family farm north of Danbury until Butch's death in 1968. She then continued the farming business with her son, Bill, until 1977, when she retired. Mary moved to Danbury in 1984.

Mary was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Danbury and of it's rosary society, having served two terms as it's president and as circle leader various times through the years. She was an avid card player and belonged to many card clubs during her "shuffling" career. She also spent much time quilting and gardening.

Mary is survived by her two daughters, Ann and her husband, Alvin Christophersen and Jan Petrositch, all of Danbury; five grandchildren, Joe (Shelly) Christophersen, Dan (Donna) Christophersen, Pete (Tracy) Christophersen, Tony Christophersen, and Lisa Yockey; six great-grandchildren; three sisters, Alice (John) Holsh of Fremont, Neb., Rose Ann (Hirchel) Tice of Sioux City and Joan Hamann of Yankton, S.D.; and one sister-in-law, Adele Brenner of Mapleton, Iowa.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1968; her son, Bill in 2000; a sister, Helen Rivers; brothers, Norbert and Myron Brenner; and a grandson-in-law, Rick Yockey