Henrietta E. Dansdill (1921 - 2014)

DANSDILL, GENSICKE, STARK

Posted By: Pamela Wagler
Date: 3/20/2025 at 12:45:00

Lunning Funeral Home
West Burlington, Iowa
May 21, 2014

Mrs. Henrietta E. Dansdill

Mrs. Henrietta Elizabeth Dansdill, 88, of Burlington, died at 2:10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, at Great River Medical Center, Burlington. Friends may call from noon until 5 p.m. Sunday at Lunning Chapel in Burlington, where the rosary will be recited from 3 until 3:30 p.m. and the family will receive friends from 3:30 until 5 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial for Mrs. Dansdill will be at 10 a.m. Monday, March 1, at St. Paul Catholic Church, Burlington. The Rev. Mike Phillips will be the celebrant. Interment will be at 3 p.m. in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Cedar Rapids.

Henrietta was born Aug. 6, 1921, on the Stark settlement in rural Cedar Rapids. She was the daughter of Charles and Edna Gensicke Stark. On Oct. 31, 1942, she married Richard Patrick Dansdill in Cedar Rapids. He preceded her in death on Aug. 23, 1988. Mrs. Dansdill was a member of Ss. Mary and Patrick Catholic Church and the Altar and Rosary Society. She was a homemaker.

Survivors include six daughters, Irene (Tom) Hemerling of Burlington, Mary (Steve) Smith of Iowa City, Regina (Brian) Hilton and Margaret Dansdill, both of Lake City, Fla., Rita Dansdill of Kennewick, Wash., and Janey (Doug) Gosda of Sugarland, Texas; four sons, Richard (Sue) Dansdill of Lake St. Louis, Mo., Dr. David (Dr. Betty) Dansdill of Rockford, Ill., and Regis (Anne) Dansdill and James (Susan) Dansdill, both of Wheaton, Ill.; 27 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one sister, Emma Ard of Cedar Rapids; one brother, Ted Stark of Newhall; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents; four brothers, Ralph Stark, Herb Stark, Angelo Stark and Henry Stark, and three sisters, Evelyn Coffman, Mary Portman and Edna Denton.

Memorials have been established for the Columban Fathers, the Order of the Servants of the Pierced Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Burlington Notre Dame Foundation.