CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Madeline M. Dickes

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Madeline M. Dickes

CROFTON- Madeline M. Dickes, died Nov. 12, 1998, at Sister James 
Nursing Home, Yankton, S.D.

Visitation was Nov. 15, at the Wintz Funeral Home, Crofton.

Funeral services were Nov. 16, at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, 
Crofton with Rev. Mark Merkel and Rev. Jerome Dickes officiating.

Burial was in St. Boniface Cemetery, Menominee.

Pallbearers were Jeff Gentrup, Brian Merkel, Keith Merkel, Chris 
Merkel, Luke Merkel, Richard Archen, and Steve Archen.

Honorary pallbearers were Lorene Ausdemore, Mercedes Donner, Flavia 
Ausdemore, Margaret Donner, Johanna Steffen, Frances Steffen, Marcella 
Kathol, Adelaide DeBlauw, and Donna Guenther.

Madeline was born Sept. 6, 1919, to John and Wilhelmina (Pinkleman) 
Kathol in Bow Valley.

Madeline grew up in the Bow Valley area. She married Lawrence Merkel 
Feb. 4, 1942, in Bow Valley. After her marriage to Lawrence, they 
lived and farmed in the Menominee area. He died March 25, 1971.

She married Raymond Dickes, May 13, 1972 at Menominee. They lived in 
the Crofton area until moving into Crofton in 1980. They later moved 
to the Cottonwood Villa. In 1997, she moved to Sister James Nursing 
Home in Yankton, S.D.

Madeline was a former member of St. Boniface Church, Menominee, and 
is a present member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Crofton; 
Christian Mothers; Ladies Guild; and the Crofton American Legion 
Auxiliary Post #128.

Survivors include her husband, Raymond Dickes, Sister James Nursing 
Home, Yankton, s.D.; five children and their spouses, Kenneth and 
Barbara Merkel, Norfolk; Joyce and Robert Gentrup, Hartington; Dennis 
and Bev Merkel, Crofton; Dale and Marianne Merkel, Crofton; Dean and 
Karen Merkel, Kansas City, Mo.; two step-children and their spouses, 
John and Linda Dickes, Anoka, Minn.; Jan and Kevin Sivertson, Yankton, 
S.D.; 15 grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; seven step-great-
grandchildren; two brothers, Rudolph Kathol, Hartington; Urban Kathol, 
Hartington; a sister, Rita Goeden, Andover, Minn.

She was preceeded in death by her first husband; two sons, Ronald and 
Lawrence Jr. Merkel; five brothers, Frank, Leo, Edmund, Andrew, and 
Harold Kathol; and a sister, Laura Wieseler

Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1998-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS


NOTE:  	Maiden name:  Madeline Kathol
	First marriage:  Madeline Merkel