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Bonnie Broesder Hauser
BONNIE BROESDER HAUSER
Iowa City
Bonnie Broesder Hauser, longtime Iowa City resident, died March 9, 2021, at Pioneer Park, Lone Tree, Iowa, after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease. There will be no visitation and a private family graveside service will be held at a later date at the Welsh Congregational church, rural Sharon Center, with Pastor Jerry Stevenson presiding. Arrangements are being handled by Lensing Funeral and Cremation, Kirkwood Avenue, Iowa City. Cards can be sent to the family C/O Renee Hauser, P.O. Box 291, Lone Tree, IA 52755.
Our family would like to thank the staff of Pioneer Park for their compassionate care given to our mother for more than six years.
Bonnie was born Feb. 4, 1929, to Casper and Tena (Delong) Broesder in Little Rock Township, Nobles County, Minn. She attended a one-room county schoolhouse (District 13) through the eighth grade and graduated from the Adrian Minnesota High School in 1946. Bonnie graduated from the Samuel School of Cosmetology, Sioux City, Iowa, in 1948. She met her future husband Ruben Hauser, of Sioux City, Iowa (South Bottoms) and married him on Nov. 18, 1950, at the First Presbyterian Church in Lismore, Minn. They moved to Iowa City in 1962.
Bonnie was a proud first-generation American, born to Dutch parents who immigrated to America for a better life. She loved to embroider, read and walk, and enjoyed volunteering at Longfellow Elementary School, where she read to children. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and friend who had no enemies and many friends.
She is survived by her daughter, Renee Hauser Duffey (Kevin) of Lone Tree, Iowa; her son, Timothy Hauser and grandson Ruben Hauser of Iowa City, Iowa; her brother-in-law, Virgil Ripperger of Adrian, Minn.; sister, Toots (Dick) Jacobsen of Lakewood, Colo.; and sister-in-law, Joyce Broesder of Adrian, Minn. She also is survived by many Hauser and Broesder nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ruben in 2006; three sisters, Doree Ripperger, Ann Claire and Beverly Broesder; two brothers, William and James; and sister-in-law, Helen Broesder.
Online condolences may be made at www.lensingfuneral.com.
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