Frances Delores (Otto) PANNHOFF

OTTO, PANNHOFF, HUTCHISON, REYSACK, SMITH, COHRS, HARLEY, CONSTEIN, HOLM, FISHER, LOVIK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/24/2009 at 02:56:11

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter, Iowa
June 2005

Frances "Frannie" D. Pannhoff, age 70, most recently a resident of the Concord Care Center, Garner, Iowa, formerly a resident of Klemme and Kanawha, Iowa, died Friday, June 3, 2005 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 7, at Immanuel Reformed United Church of Christ in Klemme. The Rev. Donna Buckman officiated. Burial was in the Ell Township Cemetery, Klemme. Memorials are suggested to the family or Frannie or the donor's choice.

Frances Delores Otto was born Nov. 2, 1934, in Rockford, Iowa, the daughter of Charlie and Helen (Hutchison) Otto. She attended Rockford area schools and graduated from Rockford High School with the Class of 1953. Frances was later united in marriage on Jan. 13, 1956, to Kenneth "Kenny" D. Pannhoff at the Little Brown Church, Nashua, Iowa. The couple made their home and raised their family in the Klemme and Kanawha areas. They lived in Klemme form 1962-1982 and then moved to Kanawha in 1982, residing their until Frannie moved to the Concord Care Center on July 13, 2001. Kenny also resides at the care center.
Frances was a lifelong home maker, devoted wife, loving mother, and grandmother. She enjoyed times spent with her family and friends. Family fishing excursions and get togethers were some of her favorite past times. Her faith life was very important to her and she was very active in both the Klemme and Kanawha church families. Enjoyment came from her times spent with various bible studies and in later years she liked to attend church services at the care center.Frannie loved to work jig saw puzzles and welcomed any opportunity for a game of cards. Some of her favorite card games included Canasta and Uno. She had done a lot of embroidery and needle point work over the years. She had been a volunteer at the Concord Care Center for a number of years prior to her living there. Frannie will be remembered fondly for her wonderful sense of humor.

Left to cherish her memory is her husband and life partner of nearly 50 years, Kenny Pannhoff, Garner; three sons, Jim of Forest City, Al and wife, Connie, Swea City, Iowa, Doug and wife, Tracie, Klemme, Iowa; two daughters, Patty and special friend, Dan Smith, Klemme and Sharon and husband, Donny Reysack, Klemme; 11 grandchildren: Teri Jo Cohrs, Klemme, Andy Cohrs, Garner, Tanya Harley, Klemme, Jeremy Pannhoff, Mason City, Michael Pannhoff, Klemme, Nathan Pannhoff, Klemme, Ashley Pannhoff, Klemme, Telsie and Brittney, Klemme, and Serena and Collin Pannhoff, Swea City; great-grandchildren, Harli and Brooklyn, McKenna and Morgan, Damarion, MacKenzy, and Treveina; sister, Joyce Constein, Green, Iowa; half-sisters, Nancy Holm, Mason City, and Janice Fisher, Waterloo, Iowa and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant son, Larry; daughter, Jean; brothers-in-law, Francis Constein, Dean Pannhoff, Lyle Pannhoff; sister-in-law, Arlene (Pannhoff) Lovik; and a niece Linda (Constein). Andrews Funeral Home, Klemme, was in charge of arrangements.