Martha S. Heimbuch

Mason City Martha Sophia Heimbuch, 90, of Mason City, died Wednesday, October 21, 2009, at the Troy Beaumont Hospital in Troy, MI. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Monday (October 26, 200) at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 419 North Delaware, with Rev. Mark Lavrenz officiating. Visitation will be from 3:00 PM 7:00PM on Sunday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Avenue and continue one hour prior to the church service on Monday. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to Bethlehem Lutheran Church.
Martha was born on March 22, 1919 at the family farm in rural Geneva, IA, youngest child of Andrew and Alma (Kloetzer) Graff. Martha graduated from Geneva High School in 1936 and Hamilton College. She married Robert Heimbuch on March 17, 1940 at Grant Center Lutheran Church in rural Iowa Falls. Together they had 6 sons, 4 daughters, 22 grandchildren and 22 great grandchildren. Martha was a long time member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church and Dorcas Circle.
Martha is survived by her children: Don (Sharon), Roger (Jean), Ray (Pam), Jim (Judy), Paul (Mary), Mark (Linette) Heimbuch, Carolyn (Richard) Pope, Mary (Charles) Sukup, and her grandchildren and great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband Robert, daughters: Diane and Ann Elizabeth, her parents, 2 brothers and 5 sisters.