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Sunday, June 15, 2014
Alfreida Loeffelholz
Age: 89
City: Dyersville
Funeral Date
2 p.m. Monday, 6/16, Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, Dyersville
Funeral Home
Reiff Funeral Home, Dyersville
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Alfreida Loeffelholz
ALFREIDA LOEFFELHOLZ
Dyersville
Alfreida B. Loeffelholz , 89, of Dyersville, died 9:08 p.m. Friday, June 13, 2014, at Good Neighbor Home, Manchester, surrounded by her loving family. Friends and relatives of Alfreida may call from 2 to 8 p.m.
Sunday, June 15, and they also may call from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 16, at Reiff Funeral Home in Dyersville. Services for Alfreida will be 2 p.m. Monday at the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville, with the Rev. Noah Diehm presiding. Burial will be at St. Francis Cemetery in Dyersville.
Alfreida was born June 20, 1924, in Bankston, Iowa, daughter of William and Anna (Loutsch) Conrad. She received her education from St. Clemens Catholic School. On Nov. 14, 1946, she was united in marriage to Walter M. Loeffelholz at Basilica St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville.
She was a member of the Basilica St. Francis Xavier Parish.
She is survived by seven children, Eric (Louise) Loeffelholz of Earlville, Shirley Stelken of Dyersville, Dave (Jeanine) Loeffelholz of Hopkinton, Linda (Michael) Hittenmiller of Davenport, Judy (Michael) Recker of Earlville, Cathy (Steve) Lueck of Dyersville and Dean (Sherry) Loeffelholz of Earlville; 22 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; brothers- and sisters-in-law, Jenny Conrad, Ed (Joann) Loeffelholz and Norma (Paul) Tegeler, all of Dyersville, and Juanita Loeffelholz of Cudworth Sask, Canada.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Walter M. Loeffelholz, on Jan. 17, 2001; one daughter, Jane Loeffelholz; one son-in-law, Bill Stelken; two brothers, John and Irvin Conrad; and five sisters, Susan Eike, Angeline Treinen, Helen Klostermann, Viola Streif and Marcella Recker.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.reifffuneralhome inc.com.

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