Irma Martha Schwantes was born on June 5, 1923 in Gibbon, MN to Albert and Lena (Kastens) Schwartz.
As a child Irma moved to New Ulm with her family where she attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in 1937. She attended the New Ulm High School until 1940, and attained her GED in 1997, graduating with the class of one of her grandsons in Fulda, MN.
Irma married Frank Schwantes Jr., on September 1, 1940, in Estherville, Iowa.
After marriage Frank and Irma lived in Canby, St. Paul, New Ulm and later years in Fridley where Irma was active in the children’s school as a PTA officer and a room mother.
In 1959 Irma began her employment at Holly House, a Hallmark card and gift shop in Fridley and purchased that business in 1964 where she remained until 1968.
In 1972, Frank and Irma moved to Fulda where they purchased the Lanoue Bowling Lanes renaming it Fulda Recreation and Café. Together, with the help of family, they operated the Fulda Rec from 1972 until 1984 enjoying the many bowlers as well as frying burgers for their faithful customers. In those years they also purchased and operated the Fulda Theater and Fulda Mens Clothing Store. The theater was later converted into a roller skating rink after being gutted by a fire. Frank and Irma retired from all three businesses in 1984 during the farm crisis. It was at that time that Irma took a writing course through compus and began work as the Fulda Correspondent for the Worthington Daily Globe.
In 1987 Irma began a new career writing a column for the Daily Globe, at the request of Ray Crippen, called Reminiscing. In 1997 she published a collection of columns in a book and also had some of her writing published in National Magazines and in Voices, a hard cover book published by the American Legion. Since 1994, Irma has been writing the Souvenirs column in the Fulda Free Press. Frank and Irma had a full and happy life together sharing many memories with their eleven children.
Frank passed away on May 1, 1992.
After his, Irma continued to live in Fulda, remaining active in St. Paul’s Ladies Aid and the Maple Lawn Pink Ladies. She served for 25 years on the Fulda Charities Board and was a Senior Advisor of the Fulda Community Education Board. She was a past member of the VFW and Fulda American Legion Auxiliaries and of the Fulda Tops Group holding offices in each of these organizations.
Irma liked flower gardening, playing cards in her 500 club, reading, writing, and crocheting, but most of all Irma enjoyed being with, and doing things with, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Frank and Irma celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary with the help of family and friends in 1990.
Irma passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Fulda, MN at the age of 92.
Irma was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, Jr., one son, Frank III, two daughters, Diane (Fred) Zemler, and Rhonda (Gary) Sell, two sons-in-law, Mike (Dolly) McPhillips and Cliff (Sandy) Herzberg, two grandsons, AJ Stadler and Duece Dietz, her parents, Lena and Albert Schwartz, four brothers Helmuth, Gilbert, Raymond and John, and one sister, Anita Glaser.
Funeral Services St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Fulda, MN at 10:30 AM on Saturday, August 29, 2015 with Rev. Shawn Ethridge officiating. The organist is Lorretta Gehl. The soloist is Deb Bestge. The pallbearers are her 16 grandsons. Interment at Prairie Hill Cemetery Fulda, MN.
Visitation will be Friday from 4 to 7 PM at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fulda and one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday.
Totzke Funeral Home
As a child Irma moved to New Ulm with her family where she attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in 1937. She attended the New Ulm High School until 1940, and attained her GED in 1997, graduating with the class of one of her grandsons in Fulda, MN.
Irma married Frank Schwantes Jr., on September 1, 1940, in Estherville, Iowa.
After marriage Frank and Irma lived in Canby, St. Paul, New Ulm and later years in Fridley where Irma was active in the children’s school as a PTA officer and a room mother.
In 1959 Irma began her employment at Holly House, a Hallmark card and gift shop in Fridley and purchased that business in 1964 where she remained until 1968.
In 1972, Frank and Irma moved to Fulda where they purchased the Lanoue Bowling Lanes renaming it Fulda Recreation and Café. Together, with the help of family, they operated the Fulda Rec from 1972 until 1984 enjoying the many bowlers as well as frying burgers for their faithful customers. In those years they also purchased and operated the Fulda Theater and Fulda Mens Clothing Store. The theater was later converted into a roller skating rink after being gutted by a fire. Frank and Irma retired from all three businesses in 1984 during the farm crisis. It was at that time that Irma took a writing course through compus and began work as the Fulda Correspondent for the Worthington Daily Globe.
In 1987 Irma began a new career writing a column for the Daily Globe, at the request of Ray Crippen, called Reminiscing. In 1997 she published a collection of columns in a book and also had some of her writing published in National Magazines and in Voices, a hard cover book published by the American Legion. Since 1994, Irma has been writing the Souvenirs column in the Fulda Free Press. Frank and Irma had a full and happy life together sharing many memories with their eleven children.
Frank passed away on May 1, 1992.
After his, Irma continued to live in Fulda, remaining active in St. Paul’s Ladies Aid and the Maple Lawn Pink Ladies. She served for 25 years on the Fulda Charities Board and was a Senior Advisor of the Fulda Community Education Board. She was a past member of the VFW and Fulda American Legion Auxiliaries and of the Fulda Tops Group holding offices in each of these organizations.
Irma liked flower gardening, playing cards in her 500 club, reading, writing, and crocheting, but most of all Irma enjoyed being with, and doing things with, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Frank and Irma celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary with the help of family and friends in 1990.
Irma passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Fulda, MN at the age of 92.
Irma was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, Jr., one son, Frank III, two daughters, Diane (Fred) Zemler, and Rhonda (Gary) Sell, two sons-in-law, Mike (Dolly) McPhillips and Cliff (Sandy) Herzberg, two grandsons, AJ Stadler and Duece Dietz, her parents, Lena and Albert Schwartz, four brothers Helmuth, Gilbert, Raymond and John, and one sister, Anita Glaser.
Funeral Services St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Fulda, MN at 10:30 AM on Saturday, August 29, 2015 with Rev. Shawn Ethridge officiating. The organist is Lorretta Gehl. The soloist is Deb Bestge. The pallbearers are her 16 grandsons. Interment at Prairie Hill Cemetery Fulda, MN.
Visitation will be Friday from 4 to 7 PM at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fulda and one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday.
Totzke Funeral Home
Irma Martha Schwantes was born on June 5, 1923 in Gibbon, MN to Albert and Lena (Kastens) Schwartz.
As a child Irma moved to New Ulm with her family where she attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in 1937. She attended the New Ulm High School until 1940, and attained her GED in 1997, graduating with the class of one of her grandsons in Fulda, MN.
Irma married Frank Schwantes Jr., on September 1, 1940, in Estherville, Iowa.
After marriage Frank and Irma lived in Canby, St. Paul, New Ulm and later years in Fridley where Irma was active in the children’s school as a PTA officer and a room mother.
In 1959 Irma began her employment at Holly House, a Hallmark card and gift shop in Fridley and purchased that business in 1964 where she remained until 1968.
In 1972, Frank and Irma moved to Fulda where they purchased the Lanoue Bowling Lanes renaming it Fulda Recreation and Café. Together, with the help of family, they operated the Fulda Rec from 1972 until 1984 enjoying the many bowlers as well as frying burgers for their faithful customers. In those years they also purchased and operated the Fulda Theater and Fulda Mens Clothing Store. The theater was later converted into a roller skating rink after being gutted by a fire. Frank and Irma retired from all three businesses in 1984 during the farm crisis. It was at that time that Irma took a writing course through compus and began work as the Fulda Correspondent for the Worthington Daily Globe.
In 1987 Irma began a new career writing a column for the Daily Globe, at the request of Ray Crippen, called Reminiscing. In 1997 she published a collection of columns in a book and also had some of her writing published in National Magazines and in Voices, a hard cover book published by the American Legion. Since 1994, Irma has been writing the Souvenirs column in the Fulda Free Press. Frank and Irma had a full and happy life together sharing many memories with their eleven children.
Frank passed away on May 1, 1992.
After his, Irma continued to live in Fulda, remaining active in St. Paul’s Ladies Aid and the Maple Lawn Pink Ladies. She served for 25 years on the Fulda Charities Board and was a Senior Advisor of the Fulda Community Education Board. She was a past member of the VFW and Fulda American Legion Auxiliaries and of the Fulda Tops Group holding offices in each of these organizations.
Irma liked flower gardening, playing cards in her 500 club, reading, writing, and crocheting, but most of all Irma enjoyed being with, and doing things with, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Frank and Irma celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary with the help of family and friends in 1990.
Irma passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Fulda, MN at the age of 92.
Irma was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, Jr., one son, Frank III, two daughters, Diane (Fred) Zemler, and Rhonda (Gary) Sell, two sons-in-law, Mike (Dolly) McPhillips and Cliff (Sandy) Herzberg, two grandsons, AJ Stadler and Duece Dietz, her parents, Lena and Albert Schwartz, four brothers Helmuth, Gilbert, Raymond and John, and one sister, Anita Glaser.
Funeral Services St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Fulda, MN at 10:30 AM on Saturday, August 29, 2015 with Rev. Shawn Ethridge officiating. The organist is Lorretta Gehl. The soloist is Deb Bestge. The pallbearers are her 16 grandsons. Interment at Prairie Hill Cemetery Fulda, MN.
Visitation will be Friday from 4 to 7 PM at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fulda and one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday.
Totzke Funeral Home
As a child Irma moved to New Ulm with her family where she attended St. Paul’s Lutheran School and was confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran church in 1937. She attended the New Ulm High School until 1940, and attained her GED in 1997, graduating with the class of one of her grandsons in Fulda, MN.
Irma married Frank Schwantes Jr., on September 1, 1940, in Estherville, Iowa.
After marriage Frank and Irma lived in Canby, St. Paul, New Ulm and later years in Fridley where Irma was active in the children’s school as a PTA officer and a room mother.
In 1959 Irma began her employment at Holly House, a Hallmark card and gift shop in Fridley and purchased that business in 1964 where she remained until 1968.
In 1972, Frank and Irma moved to Fulda where they purchased the Lanoue Bowling Lanes renaming it Fulda Recreation and Café. Together, with the help of family, they operated the Fulda Rec from 1972 until 1984 enjoying the many bowlers as well as frying burgers for their faithful customers. In those years they also purchased and operated the Fulda Theater and Fulda Mens Clothing Store. The theater was later converted into a roller skating rink after being gutted by a fire. Frank and Irma retired from all three businesses in 1984 during the farm crisis. It was at that time that Irma took a writing course through compus and began work as the Fulda Correspondent for the Worthington Daily Globe.
In 1987 Irma began a new career writing a column for the Daily Globe, at the request of Ray Crippen, called Reminiscing. In 1997 she published a collection of columns in a book and also had some of her writing published in National Magazines and in Voices, a hard cover book published by the American Legion. Since 1994, Irma has been writing the Souvenirs column in the Fulda Free Press. Frank and Irma had a full and happy life together sharing many memories with their eleven children.
Frank passed away on May 1, 1992.
After his, Irma continued to live in Fulda, remaining active in St. Paul’s Ladies Aid and the Maple Lawn Pink Ladies. She served for 25 years on the Fulda Charities Board and was a Senior Advisor of the Fulda Community Education Board. She was a past member of the VFW and Fulda American Legion Auxiliaries and of the Fulda Tops Group holding offices in each of these organizations.
Irma liked flower gardening, playing cards in her 500 club, reading, writing, and crocheting, but most of all Irma enjoyed being with, and doing things with, her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Frank and Irma celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary with the help of family and friends in 1990.
Irma passed away on Tuesday, August 25, 2015 at the Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Fulda, MN at the age of 92.
Irma was preceded in death by her husband, Frank, Jr., one son, Frank III, two daughters, Diane (Fred) Zemler, and Rhonda (Gary) Sell, two sons-in-law, Mike (Dolly) McPhillips and Cliff (Sandy) Herzberg, two grandsons, AJ Stadler and Duece Dietz, her parents, Lena and Albert Schwartz, four brothers Helmuth, Gilbert, Raymond and John, and one sister, Anita Glaser.
Funeral Services St. Paul’s Lutheran Church Fulda, MN at 10:30 AM on Saturday, August 29, 2015 with Rev. Shawn Ethridge officiating. The organist is Lorretta Gehl. The soloist is Deb Bestge. The pallbearers are her 16 grandsons. Interment at Prairie Hill Cemetery Fulda, MN.
Visitation will be Friday from 4 to 7 PM at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Fulda and one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday.
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