Marlys A. Polking Breda
Marlys A. Polking, 78, of Breda died Saturday, April 25, 2009,
at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll.
Mass of the Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday,
April 29, at St. Bernard Catholic Church in Breda with the Rev. Joe
Dillinger presiding. Lector will be Marlene Goecke. Gift bearers will be
Delores Kanne, Madonna Koster, Marinell Garnatz and Amanda Crawford.
Servers will be Matt Wessling, Matt Koster and Miriah Masching.
Eucharistic ministers will be Bev Bruning, Dave Grabner and Judy Koster.
Soloists will be Rhonda Polking, Jill Fitzgerald, Sara Heim and Abby Heim.
Casket bearers will be Kevin Eischeid, Doug Eischeid, Jim
Eischeid, Ken Eischeid, Frank Eischeid, Lenny Thelen, Dean Bruning and Mike Koster.
Burial will be in St. Bernard Cemetery at Breda.
Visitation starts at 2:30 and the St. Bernard Ladies Guild will
lead a rosary at 3 Tuesday at Sharp Funeral Home in Breda. St. Bernard
Parish will hold a Christian wake service at 7 Tuesday night at the funeral home.
A daughter of Clarence and Clara (Murray) Goecke, she was born
Sept. 1, 1930, at Carroll, graduated from St. Bernard High School at
Breda in 1948 and spent most of her life in Breda.
She and Neil Polking were married Aug. 22, 1953, at St. Bernard
Church with the Rev. J.P. Hausman officiating.
The Polkings resided in Breda. Mrs. Polking worked at General
Electric in Carroll until the late 1970s then returned to being a homemaker.
She was a member of St. Bernard Parish and Ladies Guild and
enjoyed fishing, reading newspapers, watching TV news and shopping.
Survivors include her husband, Neil, of Breda; three children:
Russ Polking and wife Ann of Newton, Carol Heim and husband Joe of Cedar
Rapids and Rhonda Polking and special friend John Derby of Ralston,
Neb.; five grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; three sisters:
Delores Kanne of Carroll, Madonna Koster and husband Linus of Breda and
Marinell Garnatz and husband Warren of La Vista, Neb.; and three
sisters-in-law: Marlene Goecke of Remsen, Marilyn Eischeid of Halbur and
Diane Rosteck and husband John of Cedar Rapids.
Mrs. Polking was preceded in death by her parents; and two
brothers: Ken Goecke and Dean Goecke in infancy.
(Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Monday, April 27, 2009) |
