RoJean (JOHANNSEN) DUBEN

DUBEN, INGWERSEN, JOHANNSEN, FLOWERS, LOOMIS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/22/2009 at 01:12:10

Creston New Advertiser
Creston, Union County, Iowa
Monday, March 30, 2009

OBITUARY - ROJEAN DUBEN

RoJean DUBEN, 79, of Ellston, formerly of Creston, died March 29, 2009, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.

Services are pending at Powers Funeral Home, junction of Highways 34 and 25. Memorials are to the Ellston United Methodist Church or Ellston First Responders

OBITUARY - ROJEAN DUBEN

Rojean DUBEN, 79 of Ellston, formerly of Creston, died Sunday March 29, 2009 at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines. Services will be 1:30 PM Thursday, April 2, 2009 at the Powers Funeral Home Jct. Hwy 34 & 25 in Creston. Burial will be in the Graceland Cemetery in Creston. Pastor Dan FERNANDEZ will officiate. Open visitation will be 2-8:00 PM Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at the Powers Funeral Home Jct. Hwy 34 & 25 in Creston, with family receiving friends from 6-8:00 PM. Memorials are to the Ellston United Methodist Church or Ellston First Responders. Online condolences may be given under the obituary category at www.powersfh.com.

Rojean Jane was born December 29, 1929 in Green Island, Ia. to Anna M. (INGWERSEN) and Otto H. JOHANNSEN. She graduated from Miles High School in 1947 and attended Iowa State Teachers College graduating in 1949. On June 3, 1951 she was united in marriage to Bernard Duane DUBEN in Preston, Ia. They settled in Whiting, Ia. where she taught 3rd grade until moving to Creston in 1960.

While in Creston, Rojean was a homemaker and substitute teacher, moving to Klemme in 1979 and to Osceola in 1986 and Sun Valley Lake in 1992. She was a member of the Ellston United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women, PEO and the American Legion Auxiliary.

Survivors include one son: Mark (wife Kelly) DUBEN of Urbandale; one daughter: Tami (husband Jim) FLOWERS of Creston; one brother: Harlan (wife Wilma) JOHANNSEN of Morrison, Ill.; one sister: Donna (husband Walter) LOOMIS of Savanna, Ill.; seven grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.

Rojean was preceded in death by her parents and husband Bernard in 2003.

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