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LaVena Katherine “Dee” <I>Bauerly</I> Wendehl

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LaVena Katherine “Dee” Bauerly Wendehl

Birth
Merrill, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA
Death
22 Jul 1998 (aged 68)
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Sioux City, Woodbury County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
Plot
Section Plains of Bethlehem Lot 337 Grave 2
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LaVena K. Wendehl

LaVena K. "Dee" Wendehl, 68, of Sioux City died Wednesday, July 22, 1998, at her residence.

Services were. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Robert J. Schimmer officiating. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Wendehl was born Sept. 17, 1929, in Merrill, Iowa, the daughter of Henry P. and Josephine K. (Munsch) Bauerly. She graduated from Leeds High School in 1947.

She married Alfred Edwin Wendehl on Nov. 1, 1947, in Elk Point, S.D. He died Jan. 4, 1974, in Sioux City.

The couple owned and operated Al & Dee's, near St. Vincent's Hospital. Then they operated Al & Dee's Midway Bar, on W. 7th St., for 19 years. In 1982, she worked for the Sioux City School System, retiring in 1993.

She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and was a volunteer for Lutheran Social Services and the Senior Help Mate program.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Steven and Sandy of Des Moines; three daughters, Sandra and her husband, Eugene Sullivan, of Omaha, Neb., Shelia and her husband, Russell Stusse, of Pierce, Neb., and Sue Copeland of South Sioux City; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Arnold of Castro Valley, Calif., and Melvin of Sioux City; and two sisters, Shirley Bruns of Marysville, Wash., and Lorretta Von Tersch of Elm Springs, Ark.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, a sister and two grandchildren.
LaVena K. Wendehl

LaVena K. "Dee" Wendehl, 68, of Sioux City died Wednesday, July 22, 1998, at her residence.

Services were. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Robert J. Schimmer officiating. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.

Mrs. Wendehl was born Sept. 17, 1929, in Merrill, Iowa, the daughter of Henry P. and Josephine K. (Munsch) Bauerly. She graduated from Leeds High School in 1947.

She married Alfred Edwin Wendehl on Nov. 1, 1947, in Elk Point, S.D. He died Jan. 4, 1974, in Sioux City.

The couple owned and operated Al & Dee's, near St. Vincent's Hospital. Then they operated Al & Dee's Midway Bar, on W. 7th St., for 19 years. In 1982, she worked for the Sioux City School System, retiring in 1993.

She was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic Church and was a volunteer for Lutheran Social Services and the Senior Help Mate program.

Survivors include a son and his wife, Steven and Sandy of Des Moines; three daughters, Sandra and her husband, Eugene Sullivan, of Omaha, Neb., Shelia and her husband, Russell Stusse, of Pierce, Neb., and Sue Copeland of South Sioux City; nine grandchildren; two brothers, Arnold of Castro Valley, Calif., and Melvin of Sioux City; and two sisters, Shirley Bruns of Marysville, Wash., and Lorretta Von Tersch of Elm Springs, Ark.

She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, a sister and two grandchildren.


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