OBITUARY: Louise Dieterichs, Mitchell County, Iowa


               Louise Dieterichs  [1910-1986]

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City Iowa, FEB 2, 1986]

OSAGE - Louise Dieterichs, 75, of Osage, died Tuesday (Feb. 11, 1986) at an
Osage hospital.

Mrs. Dieterichs, director of nursing at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital in
Osage from 1957 to 1975, was born April 1, 1910, in Cedar Township,
Mitchell county. She was the daughter of Herman K. and Lise Maria (Dynna)
Klemesrud.

She attended rural schoools, graduating from Osage High School. She
attended Waldorf College in Forest City, and later Fairview School of Nursing
in Minneapolis, graduating in 1933. Following graduation, she was operating
supervisor at the Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis.

She married Stanley W. Dieterichs on October 31, 1937, at Rock Creek
Lutheran Church, rural Osage. He died in January 1959.

Mrs. Dieterichs worked at Nissen Hospital in Osage, and later at Mitchell
County Memorial Hospital, where she was director of nursing for 18 years.

Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church
in Osage, with Rev. Joseph Nesheim officiating. Burial will be in the Osage
Cemetery. Visitation is after 1 p.m. Friday at Champion Funeral Home in
Osage.

Mrs. Dieterichs is survived by two daughters, Gail Dieterichs, San Diego,
and Sylvia Dieterichs, Osage; a sister, Mrs. Ingwald (Alice) Sponheim,
Osage; and a brother, Herman L. Klemesrud, Indianapolis.
          

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