Leila Reimer 1930 - 2021

REIMER, HENNING, HESSE, HAMANN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/5/2021 at 10:57:37

Sioux City Journal
23 March 2021

Leila Reimer

Mapleton, Iowa

Leila passed away on Saturday, March 20, 2021 at Maple Heights Nursing Home in Mapleton, attaining the age of ninety-one years and twenty-five days.

Private Family Service will be Wednesday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig, Iowa. Interment is in Morgan Cemetery in Schleswig. Visitation without family present was held from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the church. The Huebner Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Leila Reimer was born Feb. 23, 1930, in Mapleton, the daughter of Jake and Katie (Henning) Hesse. She became a baptized child of God on April 2, 1930, at her home in Mapleton and later confirmed her faith at St. John's Lutheran Church in Charter Oak, Iowa, on April 18, 1943. Leila attended St. John's Parochial School in Charter Oak for eight years and Mapleton High School for four years. After graduation, she attended Cosmetology School in Sioux City for one and a half years.

On Sept. 5, 1948, Leila was united in marriage to Gayland Hamann at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Midway. To this union, five children were born: Sheldon, Kathy, Patty, Lyndon, and Clinton. In 1995, Gayland passed away from a lengthy illness. On March 29, 1997, Leila married Robert Reimer at their home in Denison and his children, Mary Lynne, Judith, Robert Hugh, and Amy Jo became part of her family.

Leila enjoyed sewing, baking and teaching Sunday School. She always looked forward to spending summers at Lake Okoboji. In later years, Leila loved traveling, dancing and playing cards with friends.

She is survived by her children, Sheldon Hamann and his wife Roxie of Anthon, Iowa, Kathryn and her husband Craig Christiansen of Omaha, Neb., Patty and her husband Eddie Fox of Phoenix, Ariz., Lyndon Hamann of Sioux City, and Clinton Hamann and his husband David Martinez of Austin, Texas; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and other relatives and friends.

In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husbands, Gayland Hamann and Robert Reimer; sisters, Marge Maxfield and Vera Bennett; brother, Fred Hesse; and one step-son, Robert H. Reimer, M.D.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Schleswig.

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