This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zk.2ADI/2018 Message Board Post: Gertrude Kelly Visitation: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:00 PM until 9:00 PM 7:00 PM until 7:30 PM Scripture Service Fouts Funeral Home 5th & Normal Street Woodbine, IA 51579 Service: Friday, October 14, 2005 10:00 AM Sacred Heart Catholic Church 7th & Normal St. Woodbine, IA 51579 A Life Remembered Gertrude E. Kelly Born April 15, 1906 Panama, Iowa Died October 14, 2005 Woodbine, Iowa Mass of Christian Burial Sacred Heart Catholic Church Woodbine, Iowa Friday, October 14, 2005 at 10:00 am Clergy Rev. Paul Strittmatter & Rev. Bob Schoemann Musician Nancy Foutch Vocalist Andrea Scichilone Selections “On This Day” “O Beautiful Mother” “Hail Holy Queen” “Be Not Afraid” Pall Bearers Tim Grady, Jim Hickey, Bill Hutcheson Duane Kelley, Leo Kenkel, Arnold Park John Schoemann Final Resting Place Woodbine Cemetery Woodbine, Iowa Gertrude Elizabeth (Schoemann) Kelly was born April 15, 1906, to Nikolaus and Barbara (Theisen) Schoemann in Panama, Iowa. She graduated from St. Mary’s High School in Panama and attended St. Angela Academy in Carroll, Iowa for one year. Gertrude married John J. Kelly in August of 1936. Msgr. L. Ligutti of Granger, Iowa, a longtime friend, married the couple. Gertrude worked as a bookkeeper at the light plant and she played the organ at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. She enjoyed gardening, farming and her church. She also enjoyed spending time with the neighborhood ladies. Gertrude died on Monday, October 10, 2005, at the Rose Vista Nursing Home attaining the age of 99 years, five months, and 25 days. Gertrude was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1958; one brother, Christopher, and four sisters, Josephine, Matilda, Marie, and Clara “Sister Grace.” She is survived by her three sons, Wayne Kelly and Pat Kelly of Woodbine, Iowa, Kendall Kelly and his wife Margie McAllister of McKinney, Texas; granddaughter, Mary Beth and her husband Tim Plowman of Woodbine, Iowa; great grandson, Jonathan James Plowman and great granddaughter, Jamie Lynn Plowman both of Woodbine, Iowa; and many other relatives and friends.