Darlene Kolln

Darlene Elizabeth Kolln was born February 27, 1929, the daughter of George and Wilhelmina Detlefsen Christiansen. She passed away at the Alegent Health Missouri Valley Hospital in Missouri Valley, Iowa on Friday, September 16, 2011, at the age of eighty-two.
Darlene was born in Denison, Iowa, attending rural school in her early education and received her GED. On December 18, 1946 she was united in marriage to Arnold Kolln and the couple was blessed with the birth of four children. She joined her husband in the service and moved to where he was based for twenty years. They retired in Clovis, New Mexico, where she began working at the community school as a cook and a school bus driver. In 1965 the couple moved to Denison where she worked at Farmland Foods and the Crawford County Memorial Hospital.
She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Dedicating her life to her family she found joy in providing for them. She loved to bake cookies and can pickles and tomatoes. She also enjoyed spending time outside watching birds, fishing, camping, and gardening flowers and vegetables. She loved to sit and visit with family and friends over a cup of coffee, and reminisce about the past and dances at the Columbia Hall. Other activities she enjoyed included crocheting, traveling, and listening to old time music favorites.
Darlene was preceded in death by her parents; one daughter, Diane; three brothers: Leroy, Charles, and Clifford; and four sisters: Maxine, Deloris, Judy, and Donna. She is survived by her husband, Arnold; two sons: Dean and his wife, Linda; Terry Lee and his wife, Karen; one daughter, Luann and her husband, William; nine grandchildren; seventeen great-grandchildren and three great-grandchildren on the way; two sisters: Helen and Norma; and one brother Lloyd; many other relatives and friends.