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Sheryl Frantz
Sheryl Frantz
Anamosa
Sheryl Frantz died Saturday, August 23, 2025, at St. Luke’s Hospital, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Memorial services will be held 12 Noon, Wednesday 27, 2025 at the Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa, where friends may call after10:30 am. Interment will be in the Rose Hill Cemetery, Lisbon, at a later date.
Surviving are her husband Denny, her children, Tammy (Jay) Moore, Todd (Susan) Wink and a stepson, Derek (Lisa) Frantz, 7 grandchildren, Katherine, Tyler, Riley, Sebastian, Travis, Charlie and Wesley, 2 great-grandchildren, Charlotte and J.R. Also surviving are her twin sister, Sharon Brink and other siblings, Gary Wessels, Robert (Judith) Wessels, Cindy (Patrick) Mancini and Janet Wessels. She was preceded in death by her Parents, and siblings, David, Mark, Larry and Naomi.
Sheryl Martha Wessels was born August 28, 1947, in Anamosa, Iowa, the daughter of George and Lucille Norton Wessels. She attended the Anamosa Community Schools. Sheryl started working at Rockwell Collins in Anamosa and later in Cedar Rapids. She worked for Norand in Cedar Rapids, Oral B. in Iowa City before moving to Tennessee. She married Dennis Frantz on April 10, 2006, in Maury County, Tennessee. While in Tennessee she worked as a nursing home aide and did in-home health care as well. The couple returned to Iowa in 2016.
Sheryl rode RAGBRI several times, she enjoyed her church prayer groups and reading. She was nicknamed Miss Neat and Tidy in Tennessee.
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