Groteluschen, Dorothy R. (1911-2005)

GROTELUSCHEN, RASSMUSSEN, JENSEN

Posted By: John Schulte (email)
Date: 8/19/2005 at 12:38:38

Audubon County Advocate

Funeral services for Dorothy R. Groteluschen, 94, were conducted Aug. 17, 2005 at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Audubon, with Pastor Steven Frock officiating. Interment was in the Maple Grove Cemetery in Audubon.

Dorothy Groteluschen, the daughter of Bertel and Marie Rassmussen Jensen of Audubon, was born July 11, 1911, and died Aug. 14, 2005, at the Friendship Home in Audubon.

Dorothy graduated from Audubon High School in 1929 and was a member of the National High School Orchestra, performing in Chicago in 1929. Dorothy attended Simpson College, where she played in the Simpson College String Quartette, and received her BA degree from Drake University in 1964. She married Herb Groteluschen in 1935 and they lived in Manning. An accomplished musician, Dorothy taught piano, violin and guitar, as well as serving as the organist and choir director at the First Presbyterian and Zion Lutheran churches in Manning, St. John’s Lutheran Church in Audubon and the Hamlin Lutheran Church. Her career included teaching in the public schools in Manning and Sac City. She lived in her own home until she moved to the Friendship Home in Audubon in December of 2004.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband, who died in 1988, her son-in-law, Jim Buckles, three sisters and four brothers.

Dorothy is survived by three children: Janis Ruth Buckles of Denver, CO; Jon Kingdon Groteluschen and his wife, Marelle of Aiken, SC; and Pamela Noelle Bansbach and her husband, Dutch of Denver, CO; seven grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and two sisters, Alice Christiansen and Irene Starrett, both of Audubon.