Ella Spahn

Ella Mae Spahn was born June 20, 1920, the daughter of Nelson and Dora Thomsen Wingrove. She passed away March 10, 2010, at the Dunlap Nursing & Rehab Center in Dunlap, Iowa, at the age of eighty-nine.
Ella Mae was born in Washington Township, of Crawford County, Dow City, Iowa. She received her education in rural Dow City. On March 25, 1944, she was united in marriage to Leonard Spahn of Denison, Iowa. Together they made their home farming in Goodrich Township, Denison, and were blessed with the birth of three children. In 1966 they moved to Dow City. They later spent two years in Pea Ridge, Arkansas, before moving back to Dow City in 1978.
She was a quiet, mild and kind, loving wife, mother and grandmother, always there for her family. She was a good homemaker and enjoyed canning. She liked birds, especially songbirds. She also enjoyed reading and going on car rides. For a few years she cooked at Ettlemans Caf. When she was younger, she used to enjoy singing and playing softball.
Ella Mae loved her Lord and had a deep faith. She was baptized in Christ and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Denison in 1944. She was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Dow City where she belonged to the Ladies Aid. She always had an apple for her pastor.
In addition to her parents, Ella Mae was preceded in death by her husband, Leonard, two grandchildren, six brothers: Paul, Herbert, John (Jack), Linn, Nelson, and Earl; and three sisters: Calista, Bertha, and Dorothy. Survivors include two daughters: Beverly Spahn of Clinton, Iowa; and Brenda Dwyer and her husband, Joe of Naples, Florida; one son, Ronald Spahn of Denison; four grandsons; one granddaughter; eleven great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; two step-great-grandchildren; other relatives and friends.