Virginia (Harris) NANNENGA

NANNENGA, THUL, HARRIS, SADDORIS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/15/2010 at 11:44:36

August 15, 2010
Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa

May 10, 1923 -- August 11, 2010

MASON CITY — Virginia Nannenga, 87, of Mason City, died Wednesday (Aug. 11, 2010) at the Clarksville Community Nursing Home. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 17, at Holy Family Catholic Church, 714 N. Adams in Mason City with Monsignor John Hemann as celebrant. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. A visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. For those desiring, memorial contributions may be made to Holy Family Church.

Virginia was born on May 10, 1923, in Clarion, the daughter of George Francis and Anna Mae (Thul) Harris. She was a 1942 graduate of Holy Family High School and a 1945 graduate of St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, both in Mason City. She met her husband, Herman while working at Mercy Hospital and they were married on Dec. 26, 1947, at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Virginia was proud to be a registered nurse, but also took great joy from helping her husband on the farm for many years. She had also been the director of nursing at Nora Springs. She resided in Mason City since the late 1960s. She was a member of the Retired Nurses Association, the Aqua Belles Swim Group, Holy Family Catholic Church, and she worked in the Community Kitchen. Virginia loved to travel and had been to Canada and every state in the United States (except Hawaii). She had a collection of cups from everywhere she and her husband had traveled. She also liked to garden and was an avid reader of western novels, especially Louis L’Amour. In her younger years, she enjoyed sewing, crocheting and quilting. Virginia was also a very good cook.

She was preceded in death by her parents; sister, Genevieve Saddoris; and brothers, John, Charles and George Harris. Those left to cherish her memory include her husband, Herman; sons, Stephen (Linda) Nannenga of Dubuque, Charles (Marlys) Nannenga of Clarksville, and David Nannenga of Willis, Texas; grandchildren, Rachel, Bryce, Bryan, Erik, Cathy and Jon; and great grandchildren, Brayden, Bela and Lila. Fullerton Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City.