Rose T. Wieneke, 98, Lismore, died Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at Luverne Community Hospital.
Services were Saturday, March 29, at St. Anthony Catholic Church in Lismore. Roxanne Kemper and the Rev. Gerald Kosse officiated.
Rose Recker was born to John and Catherine (Sassen) Recker on April 10, 1904, in Lismore. She attended school at St. Anthony Catholic School in Lismore.
She married Cletus Wieneke on Feb. 7, 1933, in Lismore. After their marriage, the couple farmed south of Lismore. They moved to Lismore in 1945. She worked with her husband as custodian at St. Anthony Catholic School and Church. She was the oldest living resident of Lismore. She moved to Arnold Memorial Health Care Center on March 10, 2003.
Mrs. Wieneke was a lifetime member of St. Anthony Catholic Church in Lismore, the CCW, Christian Mothers, Lismore Garden Club, Lismore Card Club and Lismore Senior Citizens. She enjoyed vegetable and flower gardening, quilting, crocheting and feeding and watching her birds, cats and squirrels.
Survivors include three children and their spouses, Helen (Sy) Lonneman, Adrian, LaVonne Wagner, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Alvin "Sonny" (Connie) Wieneke, Luverne; 16 grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren.
Mrs. Wieneke was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Cletus, in August 1991, one son-in-law, Melvin Wagner, two grandsons, Dean and Tim Lonneman, three brothers, Herman, Alfred and Victor Recker, and four sisters, Frances Altman, Mary LeBrun, Bertha Dollander and Alma Recker.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred.
Dingmann Funeral Home, Adrian, was in charge of arrangements.
