Marie M. (Ellerbach) Wilwert 1900-1998

WILWERT, ELLERBACH, BRAUN, GOTTO, KRAUS, SIMON

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/2/2016 at 22:33:57

FARLEY, Iowa - Marie M. Wilwert, 97, of Stonehill Care Center, Dubuque, formerly of 308 Third Ave., S.W., Farley, died at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 1998, at the care center.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Farley, with burial in St. Clement's Cemetery, Bankston. Friends may call from 2 to 9 p.m. today at Reiff Funeral Home, Farley, where there will be a Cath-olic Daughters of the Americas rosary at 4:30 p.m. and a Farley American Legion Auxiliary service at 7 p.m.. The Farley American Legion will meet in body at 7:15 p.m. and there will be a wake service at 7:30 p.m.

She was born on Aug. 9, 1900, in Holy Cross, daughter of August and Catherine (Braun) Ellerbach. She married Joseph Wilwert on Oct. 8, 1923, at Holy Cross Catholic Church; he died May 23, 1977.

She received her education in the Holy Cross-area schools. She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Farley, and its altar and rosary society. She also was a member of the Farley Catholic Daughters of the Americas Presentation Court 1460, and the Farley American Legion Auxiliary.

Surviving are a daughter, Grace of Bankston; two sons, Norb (Germaine) Wilwert, of rural Epworth, and Laverne (Joan) Wilwert, of Bankston; 18 grandchildren, 48 great-grandchildren and six step-great-grandchildren; and two sisters-in-law, Stella Wilwert, of Dubuque, and Christina (Joe) Kraus, of Sherrill.

She also was preceded in death by her parents; a son-in-law, Leon Gotto, on April 14, 1976; a great-grandson, Cory Simon, on Sept. 21, 1991; four sisters and five brothers.

A Marie M. Wilwert Memorial Fund has been established.

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Tuesday, March 3, 1998