Margaret Roetzel, 89, Adrian, died Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Services were Friday, June 21, at St. Adrian Catholic Church in Adrian. The Rev. Gerald Kosse officiated. Burial was in St. Mary Cemetery in Worthington.
Margaret Goergen was born to Frank and Elizabeth (Diederich) Goergen on Jan. 29, 1913, in Granville, Iowa. She attended catholic school in Granville and graduated from St. Adrian Catholic School in 1929.
She married Leonard Roetzel on Sept. 26, 1933. After their marriage the couple farmed south of Fulda. They later moved to the farm east of Worthington. Mr. Roetzel died Dec. 31, 1955. In March 1958, she moved her family to Adrian. She worked at Arnold Memorial Hospital in Adrian. She later worked at Nobles County Day Activities Center for 15 years before retiring.
Mrs. Roetzel was a member of St. Adrian Catholic Church where she taught CCD and Bible Study; Catholic Daughters of America; WCCW; MCCL; AARP; and Adrian Senior Citizens where she served as secretary. She enjoyed baking, gardening and playing cards.
Survivors include four sons, Frank (Jeannie) Roetzel, Spirit lake, Iowa, Daryl (Barb) Roetzel, Mitchell, S.D., Ken Roetzel, Burnsville, and Ralph (Kathy) Roetzel, Sioux Falls, S.D.; four daughters, Clarice Lenz, Lincoln, Neb., Carole (Delbert) Honermann, Adrian, Midge (Arnold) Block, Rochester, and Kathy (Richard) Strachan, Mankato; 24 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter, Trinity Shipley; one sister, Virginia Harens, St. Paul; and one sister-in-law, Helen Honkomp, Ashton, Iowa.
Mrs. Roetzel was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Leonard, three grandchildren, Leonard Shipley, Pamela Roetzel and Mark Roetzel, and four brothers, Joe, Ted, Martin and Paul Goergen.
Dingmann Funeral Home, Adrian, was in charge of arrangements.