Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, IA, Monday, December 29, 2008, pg. 4
DOROTHY I. KANN
GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Dorothy Ida (Wernke) Kann, 89, of Guttenberg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Guttenberg, with the Rev. Marvin Bries officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Guttenberg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Guttenberg. Friends also may call after noon Wednesday at the church.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1919, daughter of Martha (Goebel) Wernke and John Wernke, who farmed two miles west of Luxemburg. She was the youngest of eight children.
Dorothy met Harold "Bus" Kann at Lakeside Ballroom in Guttenberg. They were married on Dec. 29, 1941, at Holy Trinity Church in Luxemburg; he preceded her in death.
After Bus was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, they bought the house at 730 S. River Park Drive, where she was a homemaker and caregiver to mother-in-law, mother, husband and children.
Surviving are her daughter, Donna (Mark) Gibson, of Dubuque; a son-in-law, Robert Lake, a daughter-in-law, Rose Kann, of Guttenberg; six grandchildren, Nathan Gibson, Dan Gibson, Susan Kann, William Kann, Arian (Dean) Friday and Tony Lake; a sister, Marie Hoeger; and a great-granddaughter, Claire Friday.
She also was preceded in death by a son, Dirk; a daughter, Marjorie; and six brothers and sisters, Olivia Hermsen, John "Jack" Wernke, Martha Gerken, Matilda Bockting, Henry Wernke and Kathryn Berns Backhaus.
DOROTHY I. KANN
GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Dorothy Ida (Wernke) Kann, 89, of Guttenberg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Guttenberg, with the Rev. Marvin Bries officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Guttenberg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Guttenberg. Friends also may call after noon Wednesday at the church.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1919, daughter of Martha (Goebel) Wernke and John Wernke, who farmed two miles west of Luxemburg. She was the youngest of eight children.
Dorothy met Harold "Bus" Kann at Lakeside Ballroom in Guttenberg. They were married on Dec. 29, 1941, at Holy Trinity Church in Luxemburg; he preceded her in death.
After Bus was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, they bought the house at 730 S. River Park Drive, where she was a homemaker and caregiver to mother-in-law, mother, husband and children.
Surviving are her daughter, Donna (Mark) Gibson, of Dubuque; a son-in-law, Robert Lake, a daughter-in-law, Rose Kann, of Guttenberg; six grandchildren, Nathan Gibson, Dan Gibson, Susan Kann, William Kann, Arian (Dean) Friday and Tony Lake; a sister, Marie Hoeger; and a great-granddaughter, Claire Friday.
She also was preceded in death by a son, Dirk; a daughter, Marjorie; and six brothers and sisters, Olivia Hermsen, John "Jack" Wernke, Martha Gerken, Matilda Bockting, Henry Wernke and Kathryn Berns Backhaus.
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, IA, Monday, December 29, 2008, pg. 4
DOROTHY I. KANN
GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Dorothy Ida (Wernke) Kann, 89, of Guttenberg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Guttenberg, with the Rev. Marvin Bries officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Guttenberg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Guttenberg. Friends also may call after noon Wednesday at the church.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1919, daughter of Martha (Goebel) Wernke and John Wernke, who farmed two miles west of Luxemburg. She was the youngest of eight children.
Dorothy met Harold "Bus" Kann at Lakeside Ballroom in Guttenberg. They were married on Dec. 29, 1941, at Holy Trinity Church in Luxemburg; he preceded her in death.
After Bus was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, they bought the house at 730 S. River Park Drive, where she was a homemaker and caregiver to mother-in-law, mother, husband and children.
Surviving are her daughter, Donna (Mark) Gibson, of Dubuque; a son-in-law, Robert Lake, a daughter-in-law, Rose Kann, of Guttenberg; six grandchildren, Nathan Gibson, Dan Gibson, Susan Kann, William Kann, Arian (Dean) Friday and Tony Lake; a sister, Marie Hoeger; and a great-granddaughter, Claire Friday.
She also was preceded in death by a son, Dirk; a daughter, Marjorie; and six brothers and sisters, Olivia Hermsen, John "Jack" Wernke, Martha Gerken, Matilda Bockting, Henry Wernke and Kathryn Berns Backhaus.
DOROTHY I. KANN
GUTTENBERG, Iowa - Dorothy Ida (Wernke) Kann, 89, of Guttenberg, died Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Guttenberg, with the Rev. Marvin Bries officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Guttenberg. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Tuecke-Allyn Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Guttenberg. Friends also may call after noon Wednesday at the church.
She was born on Jan. 22, 1919, daughter of Martha (Goebel) Wernke and John Wernke, who farmed two miles west of Luxemburg. She was the youngest of eight children.
Dorothy met Harold "Bus" Kann at Lakeside Ballroom in Guttenberg. They were married on Dec. 29, 1941, at Holy Trinity Church in Luxemburg; he preceded her in death.
After Bus was discharged from the Navy at the end of World War II, they bought the house at 730 S. River Park Drive, where she was a homemaker and caregiver to mother-in-law, mother, husband and children.
Surviving are her daughter, Donna (Mark) Gibson, of Dubuque; a son-in-law, Robert Lake, a daughter-in-law, Rose Kann, of Guttenberg; six grandchildren, Nathan Gibson, Dan Gibson, Susan Kann, William Kann, Arian (Dean) Friday and Tony Lake; a sister, Marie Hoeger; and a great-granddaughter, Claire Friday.
She also was preceded in death by a son, Dirk; a daughter, Marjorie; and six brothers and sisters, Olivia Hermsen, John "Jack" Wernke, Martha Gerken, Matilda Bockting, Henry Wernke and Kathryn Berns Backhaus.
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