OBITUARY: Dorothy D. Kindschuh, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Apr. 24, 2002]


                         Dorothy D. Kindschuh

Funeral services were held for Dorothy D. "Doudna" Kindschuh, age 76, of
Osage on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 at the First United Methodist Church in
Osage. Rev. Karen Nichols Dungan officiated. Interment was in the Osage
cemetery. Dorothy died Saturday, April 20, 2002 at the Mitchell County
Regional Health Center in Osage.

Dorothy was born March 13, 1926, in Burr Oak Township near Osage, the
daughter of Vivian and Anna (Benson) Doudna. She graduated from Osage High
School in 1943, and following graduation worked as a secretary for Osage
High School for three years. She was a secretary for Marr Knitting Mill in
Osage from 1946 to 1970. 

Dorothy was united in marriage to Dean Kindschuh on November 19, 1950, at
the First United Methodist Church in Osage where she was a member. They
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in the fall of 2000. 

Dorothy worked in the Mitchell County Auditor's Office from 1970 to 1979,
and was appointed Mitchell County Auditor in 1979 retiring in 1988. She
enjoyed attending the different events of her nieces and nephews. She found
great pleasure in gardening and spending time with close friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brother and sister-in-law, Robert
and LaVonne Doudna.

Dorothy is survived by her husband, Dean Kindschuh of Osage; one sister Ann
Lewis and husband Robert of Osage; three nieces, Karen Brumm and husband
Richard, Kathy Lessard, Dawn Lewis; five nephews, James Doudna and wife
Kathy, Donald Doudna and wife Barbara, Michael Lewis and wife Kim, David
Lewis, Daniel Lewis and wife Kelly; 22 great nieces and nephews and special
friend, Emily.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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