Josie Beatrice Schenck, 86, Albert Lea
Published 12:00 am Friday, July 16, 2004
Funeral services for Josie Beatrice Schenck, age 86, of Albert Lea, will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, July 17, at the First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. The Rev. John Holt will officiate. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. today at Bonnerup Funeral Service, and one hour before services at the church.
Josie died Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at the Good Samaritan Center in Albert Lea.
Josie Beatrice Schenck was born June 16,1918, to Ole and Christina (Olson) Pederson in Murray County, Minn. She was baptized at the Ellsborough Lutheran Church near Ruthton, Minn. She was confirmed in the 17th class of the church on March 29, 1931, along with her brother Casper. The family farm was just down the road from the church, and as a young person, she enjoyed summer Bible School and singing in church with her sisters.
On Nov. 29, 1944, she was united in marriage to Floyd Schenck in California where he was stationed in the Navy. The couple made their home in Albert Lea, living on Third Street for many years before moving to Shady Oaks Apartments in 1989. She had been at the Good Samaritan Center since June 2, 2004.
Josie was a kind, fun and loving mother and grandmother to her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She enjoyed doing word puzzles, music, family gatherings, and going for a ride and stopping for pie and coffee. Before her body and mind started to fail her, she liked to bake for her family, especially lemon pies and chocolate cakes. Even as she dealt with the frustrations of a failing body and mind, attending church continued to be one of the highlights of her life.
Survivors include her daughter, Janice and her husband Larry Lestrud of Albert Lea; sons: Vincent and his wife Gloria Schenck of Faribault, and Marlin Schenck of Minneapolis; grandchildren: Kent and his wife Lisa Lestrud, Sandy and her husband David Nelson, Dan and his wife JoDee Lestrud, MonicaDotterweich, Amy and her husband John Hope, Sarah Schenck and her fianc Jack Joubert, and Ruth Schenck and her fianc Jeff Bankers; great-grandchildren: Jakob Sprandel, Hunter and Kaleigh Lestrud, Zach and Katelyn Nelson, Curi, Kaled and Mattle Lestrud, Hannah Dotterweich, and Kevin, Katelynn and Kayla Hope; sisters-in-law: ElDora, Pederson of Granite Falls and Gen Schenck of Marshall; and nieces, nephews and cousins.
Josie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Floyd, in 1996; brothers: Herman, Casper (who died in a barn fire as a child), Casper K. and Omer Pederson; and sisters: Olivia Andresen, Serene Pederson, Esther Miller and Carrie Pederson.
Blessed be her memory.