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Agnes Duit
Agnes Duit
Monticello
Agnes Duit, 86, died Saturday, May 20, 2023, at UnityPoint Transitional Care Center, with her family by her side.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 26, at S.S. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church, rural Monticello, with interment in the Oakwood Cemetery. Pastor Holly Knouse officiated at the services. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello. By visiting goettschonline.com, you may share your thoughts, memories and condolences with Agnes’s family and sign the online guest book. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Monticello Food Bank or S.S. Pet Lucas and Landon Lane and Allison Duiter & Paul Lutheran Church.
She is survived by three children, Bruce (Judy) Duit; Carol Duit and Jean (Rod) Hall; four grandchildren, Amanda Duit Lane, Alan Duit, Alyssa Hall Keele and Rachel Hall; great-grandchildren, Lucas and Landon Lane and Allison Duit; and special sister-in-law, Marjorie Ritland.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Arlon; and siblings, Glenn Schnabel and Lillian Schnabel.
Agnes Clara Schnabel was born Oct. 2, 1936, at Hampton, Iowa. She was the daughter of Paul and Clara Staffacher, Schnabel. Agnes graduated from the Geneva High School in 1955. She continued her education at Ellsworth College in Iowa Falls. She worked at the Hampton Farmers Elevator, as a bookkeeper.
On Jan. 6, 1957, Agnes Schnabel married Arlon Duit at the Grant Center Lutheran Church LCMS near Iowa Falls. They lived in Hampton until they moved to Monticello in 1959. Agnes was the warehouse manager at Cuckler Buildings in Monticello, she was the business manager at Camp Courageous. In 1981 she started Duit Sales Agency and bought the Montgomery Ward Catalog Agency. After Montgomery Ward Closed in 1985, she acquired the J.C. Penny Catalog agency. She was also trainer for J.C. Penny and a test store for over 25 years.
She loved music, camping, fishing and being with family and friends. She attended all grandchildren’s school activities from grade school through college. She had also been a choir director and Sunday school teacher.
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