Florence Schuerer

FLORENCE SCHUERER

Amana

Florence Rettig Schuerer, 91, of Amana, died Saturday, July 5, 2014, at Mercy Medical Center in Cedar Rapids. Funeral services: 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 9, Middle Amana Community Church, Middle Amana, with Elder Emilie Hoppe officiating. Burial will be in the Amana Cemetery. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, at the Middle Amana Community Church. Memorials may be contributed to the charity of the donor's choice. Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements.

Florence is survived by her husband, Walter; two sons, Ronald (Linda) of East Amana and Gerald (Fay) of Amana; a daughter, Madeline Schulte of Amana; three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; four nephews and a niece; and two beloved dogs, Kyla and

Josie.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a brother, John C. Rettig; and a son-in-law, Keith "Skeeter" Schulte.

Florence Louise Rettig was born Feb. 23, 1923, in Middle Amana, Iowa, the daughter of Carl F. and Louise Hegewald Rettig. She graduated from the Amana High School in 1941 and attended the Cedar Rapids Business College for two years. Florence enjoyed people and looked forward to her many jobs over the years. Before her marriage, she worked at the Amana Main Office, the Amana Meat Market and the General Store. Florence married Walter Schuerer on Jan. 30, 1946, in Davenport, Iowa. Besides being a wife, mother and a homemaker, Florence worked at the Colony Inn from 1945 to 1990 and at the Brick Haus Restaurant alongside her husband, daughter and son-in-law from 1990 to 2010.

She enjoyed cooking, baking pies and gardening. She had fun dyeing Easter eggs every year and "giving them away!" She and Walter traveled to Japan, South America, Austria and Germany. But she especially cherished her family, grandchildren and her dogs, and the time she spent with them.

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com.