| Anna Wiskus Carroll
Mass of the Christian burial for Anna Wiskus of Carroll will
be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Carroll.
Mrs. Wiskus, 91, died of an apparent heart condition Friday, Aug.
22, at her home.
The Rev. James McCormick will preside at the Mass. Lectors will
be Barb Happe and Pam Vossen. Gift bearers will be Julie Peahl, Sarah
Stacy and Nancy Hultgren. Servers will be Katie McLaughlin and Ashley
and Colin Schreck. Eucharistic ministers will be LeAnn and Dennis
Wessling, and Bob Eich. Soloist will be John Wagner. The casket will be
moved to the church at 9 a.m. The Templeton Catholic Daughters of the
Americas and St. Anthony Hospital Auxiliary will form an honor guard.
Casket bearers will be Chris Peahl, Kent Pudenz, Leo Kanne, Brian
Wessling, Jeff Eich, Steve Stalzer and Paul Stacy.
A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph
Cemetery in Dedham.
Visitation began at 2:30 and the Legion of Mary and Templeton CDA
led a rosary at 3 this afternoon at Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll. Holy
Spirit Parish will hold a Christian wake service at 7 and another rosary
will be prayed at 7:45 tonight at the funeral home.
Born Nov. 24, 1911, at Dedham, she was a daughter of August B.
and Mary (Tigges) Meyer. She spent her younger years in the Dedham
community and attended St. Joseph School.
She and Leo Wiskus were married Jan. 22, 1935, at St. Joseph
Church. The couple farmed near Dedham until 1949, when they moved to the
family farm northwest of Templeton.
Mrs. Wiskus moved to Carroll in 1976 and was employed in the
housekeeping department at St. Anthony Regional Hospital for several years.
She was a member of Holy Spirit Parish and Ladies Guild, the St.
Anthony Hospital Auxiliary, the Legion of Mary and the Templeton CDA,
where she served as a past regent. She was also a volunteer at the New
Hope Village Store.
She was a partner with her husband, working side by side with him
on the farm. She enjoyed visiting and playing cards with her family and friends.
She is survived by seven daughters and their husbands: Elaine
Peahl and her husband, Charles, of Titusville, Fla., Mildred Pudenz and
her husband, Art, of Gladstone, Mo., Dorothy Kanne and her husband,
Paul, of Carroll, LeAnn Wessling and her husband, Dennis, of |
Parkville, Mo., LaVonne Eich and her husband, Bob, of Templeton, Carol
Stalzer and her husband, Jim, of Sioux Falls, S.D., and Joyce Stacy and
her husband, Pete, of Kansas City, Mo.; 31 grandchildren; 42
great-grandchildren; and two sisters: Mary Wessling and her husband,
Hugo, of Carroll and Sister Rita Meyer FSPA of La Crosse, Wis.
Mrs. Wiskus was preceded in death by her parents; her husband,
Leo, in November 1975; two sons: Joseph Wiskus and Allen Wiskus (in
infancy); a grandson, Douglas Pudenz; a great-granddaughter, Madison
Eich; two brothers: Frank J. and John Meyer; and four sisters: Veronica
Broich, Sister Leanne Meyer, Sister Roselma Meyer and Leona Erps.
(Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Monday, August 25, 2003, p. 3)
Anna Wiskus
The following surviving sisters-and brother-in-law were omitted from
the Anna Wiskus obituary that ran Monday, Aug. 25: Mary Meyer of
Carroll, Anita Meyer of Omaha, Neb., Irene Wiskus of Carroll, Helen
Wiskus of Dedham, Vera Wiskus of Hisperia, Calif., and William Wiskus of Carroll.
(Daily Times Herald, Carroll, Iowa, Wednesday, August 27, 2003, p. 3) |
