Adella Tieskotter

Adella Catherine Tieskotter, age 87 of Waterloo, formerly of Lawler died Sunday, August 22, 2010, at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo. A Mass of Christian burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, August 27, 2010, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church with Rev. Nick March officiating. The pall will be placed by her children. The offeratory gifts will be presented by Sue Hawkins and Michele Fritz. Lector will be Justin Gardner. Jenna Gardner will be the vocalist and Brianna Tieskotter playing the violin. Interment will be in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Will Tieskotter, Ray Tieskotter, Sheldon Stiefel, Joshua Tieskotter, Jared Tieskotter, David Vollenweider, Jason Gardner, and Danny Ginther. Honorary Pallbearers will be Sherri Holland, John Tieskotter, Jr., Dawn Ross, Melissa Staker, Jessica Vollenweider, and Melissa Pagel. Friends may call 3:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Thursday August 26, 2010, at the Hugeback and Chenoweth Funeral Home in New Hampton where there will be a 4:00 p.m. rosary by the Catholic Daughters of America and a 7:00 p.m. scripture service. Visitation will continue an hour prior to the service at the church on Friday. Adella Catherine was born September 3, 1922, in St. Lucas, the daughter of Hubert and Frances (Rasing) Tillman. She received her education at St. Lukes School in St. Lucas. Adella then moved to Watertown, WI where she worked as a nurses aid at the hospital. On January 20, 1944, she was united in marriage to Wilfred Tieskotter. To this union, seven children were born. Adella worked as a cashier in a five and dime store in Jackson, MS, and later moved back to Iowa, where she worked at Rath Packing in Waterloo and on the farm in rural Lawler. In 1980, the couple bought a home in Lawler. In 2005, Adella moved to the assisted living, then into the New Hampton Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Recently, she moved to Ravenwood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Waterloo. Her interests included making homemade bread, baking ginger cookies, flowers, crafts, playing cards, doing word search puzzles, and watching the EWTN channel. Adella also liked to travel, and visited Lourdes and Fatima in Europe with her sister. She was a member of the Catholic Daughters of America, Rosary Society, Senior Citizens, and American Legion Auxiliary all in Lawler. Adella is survived by two sons, John (Carmelita) Tieskotter of Conway, MO, Don (Sharon) Tieskotter of Charles City; five daughters, Rita Gullord of Waterloo, Norma (Louis) Hawkins of Lawler, Edna Stiefel of New Hampton, Donna (Tom) Vollenweider of Waterloo, and Diane (Dan) Gardner of Elma; 20 grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; two sisters, Bernadine Tieskotter of Lawler and Jovina (Robert) Lechtenberg of Lawler. She was preceded in death by her husband, Wilfred in 1989; her parents; two sons-in-law, Lee Stiefel and Dale Gullord; two sisters, Regina Tieskotter and Lucille Lechtenberg; and one brother Leonard Tillman.