Leona Martinsen

LEONA MARTINSEN

Monticello

Leona M. Martinsen, 97, of Monticello, died Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, in the Monticello Nursing &

Rehab Center. Friends may call from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, at Kramer Funeral Home in Monticello, where a vigil

service will be held at 3 p.m. Friends may continue visitation after 10 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Monticello. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, with burial in the church cemetery. Officiating will be the Rev. Paul Baldwin.

Leona was born March 27, 1917, in Monticello, Iowa, the daughter of Claude and Matilda (Schweitzer) Fothergill. She graduated from Sacred Heart School and the Cedar Rapids Business College and worked for the Wilson Co. for five years. She married Laurence C. Martinsen on Aug. 19, 1940, in Monticello. She also worked at Long Grocery for 10 years and then as a secretary for Sacred Heart School for 21 years until retiring in 1989.

She also volunteered for the Monticello Senior Home for eight years. Leona enjoyed ceramics, knitting, crocheting, sewing, reading, canning and candy making. She was a member of Sacred Heart Parish, Sacred Heart Alumni Association and Sacred Heart Ladies Aid Society.

Survivors include her children, Laurence "Marty" (Mary Anne) of Peoria, Ariz., Pat (Bill) Casey of Alburnett and Mike (Diane) Martinsen of Monticello; two sons-in-law, Greg Haas of Monticello and Paul Nielsen of Anamosa; 14 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Larry; two daughters, Sharon Nielsen and Lynne Haas; a son-in-law, Larry Hawker; and siblings, Sister Mary Garnier Fothergill, OSF, Catherine E. Keiser, Claude "Junior" Fothergill and Marguerite Henrichs.

Memorials are preferred to Sacred Heart School in Monticello.

Information available and condolences accepted at www.kramer

funeral.com.