Devie Aronson

Devie was baptized in Christ on December 5, 1954, and confirmed on April 7, 1968, at St. John Lutheran Church in Charter Oak, Iowa. She attended St. Johns Lutheran School and graduated from Charter Oak-Ute High School with the class of 1972. She attended Concordia Teachers College in Seward, Nebraska, graduating in 1976. She received a call to teach in a Lutheran School in Arenzville, Illinois, where she taught elementary school for two years. She then moved to Fremont, Nebraska, and taught early elementary at Trinity Lutheran School from 1978 to 2006. She worked at Fremonts Radio Station KHUB during Moostash Joes Polka Time, and recently enjoyed working at Kents Flowers, and Trinitys Early Childhood Center.
She was a loving and caring friend to others. She was always ready to help everyone and enjoyed offering her services to anyone in need. Her volunteer service included helping elderly neighbors and members of her church community; helping in various ways at her church and congregation, Trinity Lutheran Church, including Sunday School, Vacation Bible School; and at Care Corps in Fremont. Her friends and family would describe her as the epitome of Christian service.
Devie was preceded in death by her mother, LaMae Aronson; her grandparents, Carl and Hulda Johannsen, and Fred and Carolina Aronson. Her sister, Sandra Lawson also passed away Saturday, June 19, 2010. Survivors include her father, Murlyn of Charter Oak; one sister, Wendy Maas and her husband, Leon of Charter Oak; one brother-in-law, Herman Lawson of Salt Lake City, Utah; nieces and nephews: Jeremy and Colleen Lawson and their son, Henry of Sacramento, California; Joshua Lawson of Napa, California; Tim and Ruth Lawson of Omaha, Nebraska; Amy and Nick Schumacher and their daughters, Sophia and Claire of Early, Iowa; Jason and Jessica Maas and their daughter, Avary of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Angela Maas and her friend, Bill Schumann of Cherokee, Iowa; Jackie and Bradley Graham and their son, Niles, of Papillion, Nebraska; two aunts, Elfie Riessen and Gladys Wessel; many relatives and friends.
Devie Sue Aronson was born November 13, 1954, the daughter of Murlyn and LaMae Johannsen Aronson. She died Saturday, June 19, 2010, at Crawford County Memorial Hospital in Denison, Iowa, at the age of fifty-five.