Sternhagen, Luella

Luella Sternhagen, 91, died Saturday at Shady Rest Care Center, Cascade, following an extended illness. Funeral services will be 10:30 Tuesday morning, Sept. 29, at St. Johns Lutheran Church, Hopkinton, with interment in Hopkinton Cemetery. The Rev. Paul Finger will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 until 8 p.m. today at Goettsch Funeral Home in Hopkinton.

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‘She is survived by seven children, Jeanette Davis, Bill (LaVonne) Sternhagen, Carl (Betty) Sternhagen, Duane (Judy) Sternhagen, Linda (Roy) Shelton and Ann (Tom) Avery, all of Hopkinton, and Rose (Don) Topping, Onslow; 26 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; two brothers, Eldon (Inez) and Kenneth Tucker, both of Hopkinton; and a sister-in-law, Doris Tucker, Manchester.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leo; an infant son; a daughter, Mary Lou Turnis-Schilling; three sons-in-law, Wayne Davis, Adrian Turnis and Francis Schilling; three brothers, Elmer, Joseph and Melvin Tucker; and three sisters, Viola Whitfield Moriarity, Grace Sternhagen-Miller and Dorothy Tucker,

Luella Tucker was born April 22, 1918, in Taylor Township, Dubuque County, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Anna (Tucker) Tucker. She received her education in the rural schools near her home. Luella Tucker and Leo Sternhagen were married July 9, 1935. The couple farmed near Worthington, Delhi and Hopkinton before retiring to Hopkinton. Luella had worked at the button factory and the canning factory in Monticello at one time. In more recent years she had been employed at the Hopkinton Meal Service and had been a janitor at Johnson Elementary School. Leo preceded her in death on April 4, 1974. Luella was a member of St. Johns Lutheran Church. She loved watching the Iowa Hawkeyes, fishing, hunting and camping.