Gross, Cecelia Marie (1909 – 2009)

GROSS, KLEIN, FROMM, BOOK, PETSCHE, ARKFELD, LANGENFELD, STESSMAN

Posted By: Denise Wurner (email)
Date: 8/4/2013 at 21:05:59

Name of deceased: Cecelia Marie Gross (nee Klein)

Aged: 100 yrs, 26 days

Residence: Little Flower Haven Nursing Home; Earling, IA

Born: July 12, 1909, rural Defiance, IA

Died: Aug. 7, 2009, Earling, IA

Survived by: Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Harlan, IA; Fr. Robert Hoefler, Fr. Daniel Petsche, Fr. Ken Gross, and Msgr. Gerald Stessman, celebrants. Burial at Harlan Cemetery, Harlan, IA.

Survivors: Sons, Gerald (spouse, Martha Ann) Gross of Irwin, IA, and Ronald (spouse, Rita) Gross of Defiance, IA; daughters-in-law, Linda Gross and Karen Gross, both of Harlan, IA; son-in-law, Owen Langenfeld of Earling, IA; brother, John (spouse, Isabel) Klein of Harlan, IA; sister-in-law, Dorothy Klein of Blair, NE; 24 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; 7 great-great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends

Predeceased by: parents, John and Mary (nee Fromm) Klein; husband, Michael Gross (deceased July 18, 1987); brothers, Fred Klein, Joe Klein, Tony Klein, and Vitas Klein (in infancy); sisters, Josephine Book, Susan Petsche, Lenora Arkfeld, and Catherine Petsche; daughter, Janice Langenfeld; sons, Larry Gross, Michael Gross, and Jack Gross; one son-in-law, Ray Stessman

Education: country school north of Harlan, IA; St. Boniface Catholic School, Westphalia, IA

Marriage: Michael Jacob Gross, Jan. 20, 1931, St. Michael’s Catholic Church, Harlan, IA

Employment: farming with spouse, SE of Harlan until completion of their new farmhouse and buildings 3 miles north of Harlan in 1951; retired with spouse in 1971

Hobbies/Interests: spending time with family; quilting, knitting, crocheting, and playing cards

Source: burmeisterjohannsen.com, ancestry.com