Person:Joanne Blumhagen (1)

From the November 16, 1983, edition of the Postville (IA) Herald

Services for Joanne Suckow

Funeral services for Mrs. Ray (Joanne) Suckow, 49, were held Thursday, Nov. 10, 1983, at 10:30 am at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville. The Rev. Julius L. Peterson officiated assisted by the Rev. Paul F. Wetner of Mukwanago, WI. The Schutte Funeral Service, Postville, was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery.

Joanne Martha Suckow, daughter of Arno and Hazel (Lestina) Blumhagen, was born August 7, 1934, in Bloomfield Township, Winneshiek County. She died Nov. 7, 1983, at Lutheran Hospital, LaCrosse, WI, from injuries received in an automobile accident Nov. 1.

She was baptized Sept. 9, 1934, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Monona, with her paternal grandmother, Mrs. Frank Lestina and maternal grandmother Mrs. Fredericka Marks, as her sponsors. She was confirmed there also on May 26, 1948.

Joanne attended a rural school until third grade and then the Monona school, graduating in 1952. She was active in many school activities including basketball. In her senior year she was the starting forward for her team when they were the state runner-up.

On Sept. 19, 1952, she was married to Ray Suckow at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Monona. To this union seven children were born. They began farming in the Maynard area, then Hawkeye and Luana and moved to their present farm near Frankville. In Sept. 1983, they moved to Postville.

She had been a member of the Frankville Volunteer Fire Department, a 4-H leader for 12 years and a member of the Winneshiek County Cowbelles. For the past three years she has been employed by the Postal System in Postville.

Joanne enjoyed doing macrame and bowling but her main enjoyment came from following the activities of her children and grandchildren.

She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, and LCW.

Surviving are her husband, Ray; two sons, William, Postville, and Michael, Waverly; five daughters, Peggy (Mrs. Brad White), Waukon, Susan (Mrs. Randy Mohs), Monona, Vicki (Mrs. John Schroeder), Wolf Point, MT, Patricia (Mrs. Philip Leeman), Story City, and Penny Suckow, at home; nine grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Hazel Blumhagen; a brother, Ronald Blumhagen; and a twin sister, Joanita (Mrs. Dan Schweikert), all of Monona.

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From the November 9, 1983, edition of the Postville (IA) Herald

Joanne Suckow Dies Following Auto Accident

A Postville woman died Monday from injuries she suffered following a two-vehicle accident Nov. 1.

Mrs. Ray (Joanne) Suckow died at LaCrosse Lutheran Hospital in Wisconsin, where she was taken following an accident in which the car she was riding in collided with a rendering truck.

The accident happened around 3 pm Tuesday seven-and-one-half miles southwest of Waukon, according to a report by the Iowa Highway Patrol on file at the Allamakee County Sheriff's office.

Suckow was a passenger in a 1983 Buick driven by her daughter Penny, 17, also of Postville. The Suckows were traveling north on county blacktop W-60, the report says, when a rendering truck traveling west on a gravel road adjacent to W-60 failed to yield at a stop sign.

Following the accident, the Suckows and the truck's driver, Allan Busta, 21, Waterloo, were taken to Veterans Memorial Hospital, Waukon. Joanne was rushed to the trauma center in LaCrosse. Penny was admitted to the Waukon hospital and Busta was not admitted. Penny was released a few days later.

Joanne remained in critical condition in the intensive care unit at LaCrosse until her death Monday.

As of Monday afternoon, no charges in the accident were on file at the Allamakee Sheriff's Office or the Iowa Highway Patrol office in Oelwein.

The accident report says the Buick was totaled and the rendering truck sustained heavy damage.

Services for Joanne Suckow will be Thursday at 10:30 am at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville. Burial will be in the Postville Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday afternoon at Schutte's Funeral Home.

A complete obituary will appear in next week's Herald.