OBITUARY: Tom Von Tersch, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted 12/19/2001]


                          Tom Von Tersch

Funeral services  were held Monday, December 17, 2001 at the Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, Osage, for Tom Von Tersch, age 62, of  Osage.  Father
Philip Recker officiated and interment was in the Sacred Heart Cemetery,
Osage. Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, in charge of arrangements. He
died of cancer  Thursday, Dec. 13, 2001 at Mitchelll County Memorial
Hospital,  Hospice Unit,  Osage.

Tom was born Oct. 25, 1939 in Omaha, NE the son of William and Cecilia
(Smith) Von Tersch. He moved with his family  to Osage in 1946 at the age
of seven. Tom attended Osage schools and graduated from Osage High School
in 1957. He went to Loras College, graduated from NIACC and then continued
his education and graduated from Wisconsin Institute of Mortuary Science in
1965. He was united in marriage to Marilyn Lewis on Aug. 13, 1960. He was
employed by Champion Funeral Home as a funeral director for 35 years. He
became part owner with Tom Bucheit in 1980. He retired in March 2000.

He was an avid race fan. His  friends called him Harry. He enjoyed golfing,
canoeing and as he termed it, recreational mowing. 

He was a member of the Funeral Director's Association and Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, Osage.

Preceding him in death were his parents; one daughter, Michele Ann, one son,
John Martin and one sister, Kathy Veren.

Tom will be remembered as a wonderful husband and father by his wife,
Marilyn; and a son, Ed; a daughter, Denise. He is also survived by three
sisters, Sheila Moskens and her husband, Duane of Minneapolis, MN, Peg Bowe
of Mason City and Joan Kleckner and her husband, Bruce of  Fresno, CA; one
brother, John Von Tersch and his wife, Annette of Cedar Falls; three nieces
and six nephews and his dog, Rudy.




Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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