1/20/1987
Services for Rita Kay Schlotterback, 39, of Knoxville, who died of complications from diabetes Jan. 20, 1987 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, were held Jan. 23 at Bybee and Davis Funeral Home. The body was cremated. Pastor Wayne Ryan officiated at the services.
Songs: “If I Can Dream” “How Great Thou Art”
Music was provided by James Kidder, organist.
Mrs. Schlotterback was born May 11, 1947 at Albia, the daughter of Mike and Wanda Dorman Sulentich. She Attended Knoxville schools and graduated from Carlisle High School in 1965.
On July 5, 1972 she married Merle Edwin Schlotterback, Jr. She had lived in Monroe and Newton before returning to Knoxville.
Receiving a kidney transplant in October 1986, she was the first kidney transplant patient at the Des Moines area hospitals. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents and her maternal grandfather.
She is survived by her husband; one son, Aaron Wesley at home; her parents of Albia; three sisters, Helen McLaren of Albia and Debra Foster and Brenda Kamerick, both of Knoxville; one brother, Michael of Albia; and her maternal grandmother Lela Dorman of Knoxville. A memorial has been established to the Juvenile Diabetic Foundation, 804 36th St., Des Moines.
BYBEE & DAVIS FUNERAL HOME Directors: Jerry Zager, Steve Davolt .
Services for Rita Kay Schlotterback, 39, of Knoxville, who died of complications from diabetes Jan. 20, 1987 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines, were held Jan. 23 at Bybee and Davis Funeral Home. The body was cremated. Pastor Wayne Ryan officiated at the services.
Songs: “If I Can Dream” “How Great Thou Art”
Music was provided by James Kidder, organist.
Mrs. Schlotterback was born May 11, 1947 at Albia, the daughter of Mike and Wanda Dorman Sulentich. She Attended Knoxville schools and graduated from Carlisle High School in 1965.
On July 5, 1972 she married Merle Edwin Schlotterback, Jr. She had lived in Monroe and Newton before returning to Knoxville.
Receiving a kidney transplant in October 1986, she was the first kidney transplant patient at the Des Moines area hospitals. She was preceded in death by her paternal grandparents and her maternal grandfather.
She is survived by her husband; one son, Aaron Wesley at home; her parents of Albia; three sisters, Helen McLaren of Albia and Debra Foster and Brenda Kamerick, both of Knoxville; one brother, Michael of Albia; and her maternal grandmother Lela Dorman of Knoxville. A memorial has been established to the Juvenile Diabetic Foundation, 804 36th St., Des Moines.
BYBEE & DAVIS FUNERAL HOME Directors: Jerry Zager, Steve Davolt .