A Memorial Mass will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday May 31,
2008, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Catholic Church in Lawler with Rev. Marvin Salz
celebrating the Mass. Joe Scally will serve as
lector. Offertory gifts will be presented by Laura
Meissen, Michelle Meissen and Keisha Chelberg. Ruth
McKone will be the organist accompanying Sherri Achen,
vocalist.
Inurnment will be in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery,
Lawler with grandsons, Joseph Meissen and Christopher
Bruns as urn bearers. Honorary bearers are Alice Rasing,
Rita Gullord, Gerald Tieskotter, Dennis Tieskotter, John
Tieskotter, Dan Tieskotter, Cleo Ericksen and Norman
Knutson.
Friends may call 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. Friday at the
Hugeback & Chenoweth Funeral Home in New Hampton
where there will be a 4:00 p.m. rosary. Visitation
continues an hour prior to the service at church on
Saturday.
Leona was born September 12, 1928, on the Tieskotter
family farm near Festina, IA, the daughter of John and
Cecelia (Schneberger) Tieskotter. She received her
education in Ft. Atkinson, IA.
On May 7, 1960, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic
Church in Lawler, she married John “Jack” Meissen.
The couple lived in Lawler their entire married life
where they raised their two children, Lyn and Kevin.
Leona had worked as a homemaker for the Rusty Kennedy
family for over thirty years and in the lunch program at
the former Mt. Carmel School in Lawler. She began
working as a cook at the Pinicon in 1975, retiring in
2001. She enjoyed gardening, fishing and making candy
turtles. The time she spent with her family was
always the treasure in her life.
Survivors include her husband, John “Jack”; one
daughter, Lyn (Jeff) Bruns of Lawler; one son, Kevin
(Denise) Meissen of Blaine, MN; four grandchildren,
Laura Meissen, Michelle Meissen, Joseph Meissen and
Christopher Bruns; one
brother, Andrew (Bernadette) Tieskotter of Little
Turkey, IA; two sisters, Elvira “Vera” Tierney of
Cedar Falls, IA and Marian (Juel) Knutson of New
Hampton; a brother-in-law, Joseph L. (Virginia) Meissen
of Guttenberg, IA; three sisters-in-law, Sr. Emiliana
Meissen of Dubuque, Barbara Meissen of Valders, WI and
Adella Tieskotter of Lawler.
She was preceded in death by her parents; a sister,
Bernadette Kruse; two brothers, Wilfred Tieskotter and
Roman Tieskotter; three brothers-in-law, Joseph Tierney,
Andrew Kruse and Raymond Meissen; two sisters-in-law,
Regina Tieskotter and Rose Klapper.
