WATERLOO - Cecelia E. Wilhelms Fritz, 99, died Wednesday, March 7, at the Cedar Valley Hospice Home of natural causes.

Funeral services were Saturday, March 10 at Trinity American Lutheran Church.

Burial was in Garden of Memories Cemetery.

Cecelia was born Sept. 10, 1901 in Chickasaw County, the daughter of Joseph and Mary Remeteh Annett. She married Ira Wilhelms 1919 in Oelwein. He died in 1950. She married John Fecht, and he died in 1965. She married William Fritz, and he later died. She was a seamstress at Hinson Manufacturing for many years, retiring in 1967.

Survivors include two daughters, Madonna Mettner and LaVonne Nolting, both of Waterloo; nine grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren; nine great-great grandchildren and one brother, Glenroy Annett, Austin, TX.

Preceding her in death were her husbands; three sons, Irvin Wilhelms and two in infancy; a daughter, Dolores Erhard; a grandson three brothers, Clarence, Lloyd and Victor Annett and three sisters, Verna Hartman, Lydia Sperry and Lenora Smolinski.

Memorials may be directed to the church or the Cedar Valley Hospice.

Source: New Hampton Tribune; Mar. 27, 2001 Page 4
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