Lois Dorothy Huenemann

GARNER - Lois D. Huenemann, 95, of Garner died Saturday (June 4, 2011) at the Concord Care Center in Garner.

Funeral services will be held 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, June 8th at Peace Reformed Church south of Garner with Rev. Harvey Opp officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 P.M., Tuesday, June 7th at the Cataldo Funeral Chapel in Garner and will continue one hour prior to services at the church.

Memorials may be directed to Peace Reformed Church or to the donor's choice in memory of Lois.

Lois Dorothy Huenemann, the daughter of Wesley and Mathilda (Greimann) Lenz, was born December 14, 1915 on the Lenz family farm southwest of Garner where she lived for thirty-four years. She was baptized and confirmed at Peace Reformed Church where she continued as a member throughout her life. Lois graduated from Garner High School in 1933 and continued her education at Iowa State Teacher's College in Cedar Falls. On June 21, 1941, she was married to Elmer Huenemann in a wedding ceremony officiated by his father, the Reverend William Huenemann at Peace Reformed Church. Lois was always a homemaker. She was also employed as a public school teacher in Hancock County for nine years and in bookkeeping and secretarial work for fourteen years. She lived on farms the first fifty-three years of her life. In 1968, the family moved into Garner where she lived in her own home until 2006 when she moved to Prairie View Apartments. Throughout her life Lois was active at her church. She taught Sunday school and Bible school for many years. She also sang in the choir and participated in and held various offices in the Women's Missionary Society. Community activities included serving on the Hancock County Extension Council, singing in the Hancock County Chorus, serving as county chairman for the American Cancer Society and serving as a 4-H leader. Her hobbies included vegetable and flower gardening, knitting (making 99 afghans), working with houseplants, cooking and traveling. Lois always loved children and was involved in many ways in helping others. She was also a prolific writer, poet, record keeper and family historian. Events throughout her life have been carefully documented, and she leaves behind many examples of her poetry, histories and various other writings.

Lois is survived by her three children, Joyce Vogt of Cedar Rapids, Nancy Witter and husband, David Wilkison, of Santa Fe, NM, and Kent (K.J.) Hueneman and wife, Karen, of Garner; nine grandchildren, Daniel (Gretchen) Graves, Lynette (Greg) Boheman, Jennifer (Mark) Phillips, Christopher Witter, Victoria Hueneman, Rick Hansen, David (Mollie) Hueneman, Chastity (Jed) Hemer and Heather Hueneman; twenty-four great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Elmer, Sept. 6, 1999; her parents; three sons-in-law, Allan Taylor, William Witter and Dean Vogt; four siblings and their spouses, Ruth and Harold Haberkamp, Norma and Verner Stromer, Clarence and Ruby Lenz, Evelyn and Clifford Anderson; and an infant brother