OBITUARY: Lorraine Ruechel Hartwig Koster 1922-2002, Mitchell County, Iowa




                         Lorraine Hartwig Koster

[Mitchell County Press online - Posted Oct. 30, 2002]


Funeral services were held for Lorraine Hartwig Koster, age 80, of
St. Ansgar, IA on Friday, Oct. 25, 2002 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church,
St. Ansgar. Pastor Byron Northwick officiated. Burial was in Newburg
Cemetery, Carpenter, IA. She died Monday, Oct. 21, 2002, at the Good
Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar, IA where she resided for the past six years.

Lorraine was born Sept. 3, 1922 to Alvin and Josephine (Rosenberg) Ruechel
and grew up on a farm near Carpenter. She graduated from Carpenter High
School in 1940. She then married Raymond Hartwig and lived on the Hartwig
family farm south of Otranto where they raised six children. Lorraine
loved living on the farm where she grew flowers and had a large garden.
She loved the outdoors and looked forward to yearly family fishing trips
in northern Minnesota. Music was a great joy to her. She looked forward
to participating in "The Messiah" at Easter and was active in the church
choir. She enjoyed Ladies Aid and quilting with her fellow church members.

Raymond Hartwig passed away in Feburary 1971 and Lorraine then moved into
St. Ansgar. She married Al Koster in 1973. He passed away in 1993. Lorraine
worked as a waitress at the Maple Inn Cafe in Osage for several years where
she enjoyed meeting new people and visiting with her customers.

Preceding her in death were her beloved daughter, Audrey Miller, who died
on Oct. 20, 1987, her two husbands, her parents and brother Wayne Ruechel.

The greatest joys in her life were her faith and her family. Those thankful
for sharing in her life are her children Arlynn of Davenport, Andy and wife
Susan of Northwood, Craig and wife Nancy of Port Orchard, WA, Michael of
Des Moines, Connie of Dunkerton, son-in-law Duane Miller and wife Mary Ann
of Stillwater, MN, 14 grandchildren: Cathi, Lisa, Tom, Kerry, Natalee,
Julia, Eric, Jenny, Aaron, Brent, Matthew, Katherine, Johanna and Ethan,
four great-grandchildren: Chase, Madeline, Evan and Nathan, her sister
Marlene and husband Darold Yost of LeRoy, MN and nine stepchildren.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar was in charge of arrangements.
(641) 713-4920.





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