OBITUARY: Margaret Jo (Johanns) Gerdman, 1955-2005, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ Published November 2, 2005, www.mcpress.com ]




                     Margaret Jo (Johanns) Gerdman
 
Funeral services for Margaret Jo Gerdman, age 50, of Osage, Iowa, and
formerly of Milwaukee, Wisc., will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov.
3, 2005, at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church in Osage. Pastor 
Les Takkinen from Grace Bible Church in West Allis, Wisc., will officiate.

Margaret will be laid to rest beside her father in the New Haven cemetery.

Margaret passed away Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005, at the Muse-Norris Hospice
Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Margaret was born June 11, 1955, in Osage, Iowa, to Raymond and Shirley
(Adams) Johanns. She graduated from Osage High School in 1973, and was
also a graduate of AIB in Des Moines, Iowa. Margaret resided in West
Allis, Wisc., with her two sons, Douglas and Daniel Gerdman. Margaret's
life was consumed of raising her two sons, and she was actively involved
in the Grace Bible Church in West Allis, Wisc.

She was preceded in death by her father Raymond Johanns, in 1991.

Margaret is survived by her two sons, Doug Gerdman and Dan Gerdman, both
of Waterloo; her mother, Shirley Johanns of Osage; two brothers, Keith
Johanns and his wife Terry of Osage, Bill Johanns and his wife Dawn of
Osage; three sisters, Ann Musial of Lancaster, Calif., Susan Blake and
her husband Dan of Stacyville, Barbara Johnson and her husband Don of
Osage; and many nieces and nephews.

Margaret will be missed by her many friends and family.

Arrangements by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home.



       Copyright 2005 -  Mitchell County Press online (www.mcpress.com)