OBITUARY: Roscelia Geneve (Lee) Willert 1910-2004

[Adapted from Northwood Anchor online, April 14, 2004]





                          Roscelia G. Willert

Roscelia G. Willert, 93, of Northwood, Iowa, formerly of Lake Mills,
Iowa, died on Monday, April 05, 2004, at the Muse Norris Hospice
Inpatient Unit in Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were Thursday at Elk Creek Lutheran Church, rural
Kensett, Iowa, with Rev. Al Stoa officiating.  Burial was at the
Concordia Cemetery, rural Joice, Iowa.

Mittelstadt Funeral Home,  Lake Mills, was in charge of arrangements.

Roscelia Geneve (Lee) Willert was born July 27, 1910, near Joice,
to Gilman and Carrie (Trustem) Lee.  She was baptized in Concordia
Church by Rev. A.M. Torgeson and confirmed July 27, 1914, in
Concordia Church by Rev. L.E. Kleppe.  She took four years of Bible
Study and received a certificate to teach Bible School for all grades.
In the 1930's she taught Bible School during the summer in several
country schools.  Roscelia was organist at Concordia Church for
over 22 years.  She also enjoyed to sing, and she did this in many
different ways and places.  She became a member of Elk Creek Church
Choir and also the Solvig Singers.  Roscelia was vice president of
the North Central Music Mothers, and was also a 4-H Leader in Worth
County for 23 years, receiving many awards.

On Nov. 15, 1940, Roscelia married Johnnie Willert at Concordia Church
by the Rev. L.F. Scheie.  They farmed in several communities in north
Iowa and southern Minnesota.  While helping her husband with the farm
work and raising their three children, she still took time to teach
Sunday school for many years.  She was president and held many other
offices in both Ladies Aid and circle.

In 1976, they quit farming and moved to Lake Mills.  Roscelia was a
volunteer driver for Social Service for five years.  She then became
a bookkeeper for several apartments and houses in Lake Mills.

Survivors include her husband, Johnnie of Northwood, Iowa; three
children, Judith Tietz and her husband, John of Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
Christie Kobernusz and her husband, Richard of Norwalk, Iowa, and
Gaylan Willert and his wife, Kathy of Rochester, Minnesota; six
grandchildren, Tim (Carol) Tietz, Tammy (Joe) Carolan, Brad (Julie)
Kobernusz, Jeff (Lisa) Willert, Mike (Andrea) Willert, and Steve
(Michelle) Willert; 10 great-grandchildren, Diedra, Laura, Shannon,
Nicole, Remy, Megan, Austin, Tyler, John, and Christopher; and many
extended relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and two great-grandsons,
Andrew and David Willert.



   Copyright 2004, K. Kittleson