Wanda (Hintzen) DEPPING

HINTZEN, DEPPING, STOEHR, HUBKA, BOHLSEN, WISE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/28/2012 at 21:59:44

May 16, 1925 --- March 26, 2012

Wanda Hintzen Depping of 201 Johnston St., Sheffield, IA died March 26, 2012 at Belmond Rehabilitation Center, Belmond, IA. Funeral services for Wanda M. Depping will be held Thursday March 29, 2012 at 10:30 A.M. at the St Paul Lutheran Church in Thornton. Pastor Rhea Evanson will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood St Joseph Cemetery in Mason City. Visitation for Wanda M. Depping will be held Wednesday March 28, 2012 from 4:00 until 7:00 P.M. at the St Paul Lutheran Church in Thornton, and will continue one hour prior services. Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick’s Lane South in Belmond is in charge of local arrangements. Memorials may be made in Wanda M. Depping’s name to the family.

Wanda was born May 16, 1925 north of Mason City, the daughter of Fritz G and Bertha (Stoehr) Hintzen. She attended country school at Lime Creek #5 and at Central Lutheran Church. Following graduation she was employed in the office of Merkels Department Store and as a bookkeeper and teller at the United Home Bank in Mason City. She was married to Leland Depping of Alexander September 16, 1945 at Central Lutheran church. They farmed in the Alexander, Sheffield and Thornton areas until 1991 when they became employed at Sukup Manufacturing.

They were parents of one son, Doug. Surviving her is her son, Doug, and his wife, Mary Jo: three granddaughters: Lisa and her husband, Dean Hubka of Sheffield; Lonna and her husband, Paul Bohlsen of Maple Grove, MN; and Holly and her husband, Jason Wise of Eden Prairie, MN; five great grandchildren: Rachael and Nate Hubka, Tatum, Wade and Reid Bohlsen. She is also survived by one brother Robert L. (Bud) Hintzen and his wife Anne Marie of Cheshire, CT. She was preceded in death by her husband, Leland, in 1997, her parents, one sister in infancy and sisters Emma, Ruth and Mona and one brother, Walter.