Deloris E. (Wieland) LOWENBERG

LOWENBERG, WIELAND, LIND, GERTEN, DIRKS, PETERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/25/2008 at 14:38:06

BELMOND - DeLoris E. Lowenberg, 81, of Belmond, died peacefully Thursday (March 20, 2008) at the Belmond Health Care Center. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 25, at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church with Father Chris Podhasky officiating. Burial will be in the St. Francis Cemetery in Belmond. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Monday, March 24, at Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane S. in Belmond, where a Rosary will be said at 5 p.m. and a scriptural wake service at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the services at the church.

Deloris, the daughter of Fred and Irene Wieland, was born March 9, 1927, in Kanawha. She grew up in Kanawha where she attended school. DeLoris graduated from Kanawha High School in 1944. DeLoris was united in marriage to Merlin Lowenberg on Feb. 14, 1948. The couple made their home in Belmond where she worked for the telephone company. They later moved to an acreage north of Belmond that she and her family farmed. She worked for Acco Seed Co. and PSI for many years. DeLoris was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Belmond. She was also a member of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas. She enjoyed crocheting, reading and spending time with friends and the Kensington Group.

DeLoris is survived by three daughters: Cynthia Lind and husband, Buster, and children, Peter and Carmen, and great-granddaughter, Jasmine, of Lakeville, Minn.; Marsha Gerten and children, Amy and Will, and great-granddaughter, Jayden, of Hugo, Minn.; Jolene Dirks and son, Chad, with his wife, Lesley, of Belmond; sister, Maryls Peterson and husband, Jerry, of Britt. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one sister, Marilyn; and one brother, Vernon. Dugger Funeral Homes, Belmond.

Mason City Globe Gazette
3/22/2008