Sabrina A. REIBSAMEN

REIBSAMEN, KUNKEL, FISH, MINARD, PAULSON, MURPHY, CHRISTY, ROELOFSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/1/2012 at 14:06:03

November 16, 1985 ---- August 27, 2012

Sabrina A. Reibsamen, 26, of Kanawha, passed away Monday, August 27, 2012 near Kanawha. A memorial service for Sabrina will be held on Saturday, September 1, 2012 at 10:30 AM at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 139 3rd Street SE, in Britt with Reverend Dennis Miller officiating. Burial will be at St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery near Britt. Ewing Funeral Chapel in Britt is assisting the family with services. Gathering of family and friends will be held one hour before the memorial service at the church on Saturday.

Sabrina, daughter of Pamela (Kunkel) Reibsamen of Wesley, Iowa and Timothy Reibsamen of Algona, Iowa was born on November 16, 1985 at the Hancock County Memorial Hospital in Britt, Iowa. She grew up in Britt and attended school at West Hancock until the age of 14, when her family moved to Wesley, Iowa. In her high school years, she went to school at C-W-L High School, worked at K-Mart, and delivered the Des Moines Register. After graduation, she worked at Winnebago until she received a job at Krysilis. This inspired her to get her C.N.A. license while working for Westview Care Center of Britt, taking the course through Iowa Lakes Community College. Sabrina loved working with the elderly and went on to work at various nursing homes in the area. Currently, she was employed at the Belmond Rehabilitation Center. Along with working, Sabrina loved to listen to music, drawing, singing, laughing, swimming, dolphins, camping, fishing, bon fires, and hanging out with friends and family. She also enjoyed babysitting and having fun with children.

She loved her family very much. Her biggest achievement in her short life was becoming the most amazing and loving person to all. Her face lit up every time she saw her 2-month-old niece’s face, Isabell Fish. They used to coo and talk to each other and play. She always played her music off her phone and sang to her. Her heart was made of gold.

Left to cherish her memory are her parents Pamela Reibsamen and Tim Reibsamen; sisters Darcy Minard of Algona, and Courtney Reibsamen and her fiancé Scott Fish and her niece Isabell Fish, all of Corwith. Grandparents include Doris and Roger Reibsamen of Titonka, Godmother and grandmother Margaret Kunkel of Kanawha and Great-Grandmother Lila Paulson of Mason City; Godfather Dave Reibsamen and wife Susan Reibsamen of Mason City. Also, several aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. Sabrina was preceded in death by her grandparents Omer Kunkel, Judy Reibsamen, great-grandmother Lucille Reibsamen, and great-grandfather Don Paulson; two aunts Judy Murphy and Cindy Kunkel; uncle Jess Christy; great-grandparents Bernard and Caroline Kunkel and several other friends and family.

Sabrina had a dream to one day drive to the ocean and swim with the dolphins, and also to have children. She is an amazing person who will live on in our hearts and memories forever. Everyone is welcome to the Reibsamen residence in Wesley following the services.

http://www.ewingfh.com/obituaries.php?id=400
Ewing Funeral Home

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Pedestrian dies after hit by car near Kanawha

KANAWHA — Sabrina Reibsamen, 27, of Kanawha has been identified as the pedestrian killed late Monday night while walking on the edge of Wright County Road R35 south of Kanawha, the Iowa State Patrol reported Tuesday. Reibsamen was pronounced dead at the scene. She was walking northbound in the southbound lane at 11 p.m. Monday when she was struck by a southbound Pontiac Grand Prix. Driver of the auto was identified as Jonathan Roelofsen, 28, of Kanawha. The accident remains under investigation by the Iowa State Patrol’s technical accident investigator. The Iowa State Patrol was assisted at the scene by the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office, Wright County Sheriff’s Office, Kanawha Fire Department and EMS and Kanawha Police Department.

August 29, 2012
Mason City Globe Gazette

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August 29, 2012
Mason City Globe Gazette
By KRISTIN BUEHNER

KANAWHA — Friends and family of Sabrina Reibsamen still have questions about her death when she was struck by a car Monday night while walking along a highway south of Kanawha.

Reibsamen, 26, was struck by a Pontiac Grand Prix driven by Jonathan Roelofsen, 28, of Kanawha, at about 11 p.m. She and Roelofsen were living together, her family said.

She was walking northbound in the southbound lane of Wright County Road R35 when she was struck by the southbound auto, the Iowa State Patrol reported. Reibsamen was pronounced dead at the scene.

“I’d like some answers and I’m not getting answers,” Sabrina’s mother, Pam Reibsamen of Wesley, said Wednesday. “It seems like a nightmare I can’t wake up from.”

No charges have been filed as yet in connection with the death, Wright County Attorney Eric Simonson said. The investigation by the State Patrol is continuing after which charges may or may not be filed, he said.

Pam Reibsamen said her daughter had been living with Roelofsen, driver of the vehicle, for about seven months in a rented farmhouse south of Kanawha near where the incident occurred.

“I last saw her Wednesday and talked with her on the phone the same night (she was killed),” Pam Reibsamen said. “Sabrina’d been working so much,” her mother said. A certified nursing assistant, Sabrina was currently working at a care center in Belmond, Pam Reibsamen said. Sabrina, her mother said, was anxious to have her younger sister Courtney’s 2-month-old baby, Isabell, stay with her a couple of days. “Sabrina was a really outgoing person,” her mother said. “Nothing really brought her down too much.”

A 2004 graduate of Corwith-Wesley-LuVerne High School, Sabrina would have turned 27 Nov. 16. Sabrina’s father, Tim Reibsamen, who lives in Algona, said he was “just kind of at a loss.”

“People are saying, ‘I just saw her a couple days ago,’ ” he said. Pam Reibsamen said she had “a good conversation” with Sabrina between 8 and 8:30 p.m. Monday, just hours before she died. Sabrina told her mother she and Roelofsen were going to watch a movie and that she would call back later that evening.

“I never got a call back,” Pam Reibsamen said. “A police officer called at the house at 11:45 p.m. or so and said he needed to talk to me.”

Pam Reibsamen later learned her daughter and Roelofsen had gone out to visit neighbors living down the road in a farmhouse just north of their own. Clint Gouge, the neighbor, said Wednesday he and Roelofsen have been friends since they were little kids. He said Jonathan and Sabrina came over to visit Monday night.

“We were all sitting around just having a good time,” he said. Gouge said Sabrina and Roelofsen went home at one point so Roelofsen could get more cigarettes. Gouge’s dog rode along with them in the car. Sabrina stayed at home while Jonathan went back to Gouge’s house. But Roelofsen had forgotten to bring the dog with him, so he headed back to his house to get the dog, Gouge said. Meanwhile, the dog came home on its own. When Gouge heard later there had been an accident, he said, “I couldn’t believe it.”

His understanding was that Roelofsen had finished smoking a cigarette and looked down at the speedometer to see how fast he was going. The next thing he knew, “her (Sabrina’s) face was coming through the windshield.”