Eunice Esther (Wesenberg) KURTZ

KURTZ, WESENBERG, EMERSON, WEISBROT, WILKINSEN, CHRISTIANSEN, ROWLAND

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/12/2012 at 14:02:28

November 16, 1912 --- February 9, 2012

BELMOND - Eunice E. Kurtz, 99, of Belmond, died Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, at the Rehabilitation Center of Belmond. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at the United Methodist Church in Goodell. Pastor Janet Rieckhoff-Faris will officiate. Burial will take place in the Amsterdam Cemetery east of Goodell. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time Tuesday at the church in Goodell. Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane South, Belmond, is in charge of arrangements.

Eunice Esther, the daughter of Lewis and Nina P. Emerson Wesenberg was born Nov. 16, 1912, in Goodell. Eunice grew up in Goodell, where she attended school and graduated from Goodell High School in 1929. She attended the Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls but had to leave because of The Depression. Eunice held several important jobs over her life and never turned away from opportunity. She worked for the Hancock County Farm Bureau in Garner and Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach, Calif. Later, she returned to Iowa and did accounting for the family farm equipment business, Jim Howie, J.D. Farm Equipment and Urich Implement in Garner. Eunice was united in marriage to Ernest Kurtz on July 13, 1940. The couple made their home in Garner. Eunice raised her brother's three daughters while living in Garner. Eunice entered the Belmond Community Apartments after Ernie died in 1991. She moved to the Rehabilitation Center of Belmond in 2007.

Eunice was a woman before her time. She liked nice things and worked hard to acquire them. Eunice traveled throughout the United States. She enjoyed dancing, playing cards and doing crossword puzzles. Eunice and Ernie were accomplished antique collectors. She loved to do china painting, quilting and complicated hardanger. Eunice was a life-long member of the United Methodist Church in Goodell. She served the church in numerous capacities, led the choir, played the piano, taught Sunday school and chaired Ladies Aid. Eunice was also a member of Eastern Star since 1934.

Eunice is survived by a niece, Patricia Weisbrot and husband, Howard, of Cushing, Maine, along with numerous great-nieces and nephews and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Wayne and wife Viola, and Lewis in infancy; sister, Naida Wilkinsen and husband, James; niece, Pamela Wesenberg Christiansen; and niece, Paula Wesenberg Rowland. Dugger Funeral Home, 111 Luick's Lane S., Belmond, IA.

Mason City Globe Gazette --- Iowa
February 12, 2012