{"id":14481,"date":"2023-04-03T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T16:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=14481"},"modified":"2023-04-10T14:17:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:17:11","slug":"judith-oelke-monona-iowa-april-3-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2023\/04\/judith-oelke-monona-iowa-april-3-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Oelke, Monona, Iowa, April 3, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14484 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-750x1058.jpg 750w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-400x564.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-250x353.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic-68x96.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/oelke-judy-news-pic.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Judith Elaine Oelke, 83 of Monona, Iowa passed away Monday, April 3, 2023 at Great River Care Center in McGregor, Iowa.\u00a0\u00a0 Judith was born December 18, 1939 to Roy and Marvelyn Grove.<\/p>\n<p>On April 4, 1959 Judith was united in marriage to Gaylord Delano Oelke. One son was born to this union.\u00a0 Judith excelled as a teacher at MFL Mar Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Judith is survived by her son, Christopher Oelke (Christina); grandchildren, Austin, Dylan, Cierra and Christopher Delano; great-grandchildren, Alayla Judith, Macey Lynn, River Matthew, Matthew Lee, Melanie Rose, and Nova August; sister, Jackie (Alan) Butterfield and many nieces and nephews.<\/p>\n<p>Judith was preceded in death by her husband Gaylord Oelke on March 11, 2018; father and mother, Roy and Marvelyn Grove; brother and sister-in-law, Dennis and Margaret Grove; great-granddaughter, Saige Leigh; in-laws, Gaylord and Iva Oelke.<\/p>\n<p>Visitation will be from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm on<em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Friday, April 21, 2023<\/span><\/strong><\/em> at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Monona, Iowa. There will also be a one -hour visitation before services at the church on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 am on <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Saturday, April 22, 2023<\/span><\/em><\/strong> at Forest Mills United Methodist Church, rural Postville, Iowa with Rev. Kim Gates as the Officiant.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Monona, Iowa is helping the family with arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judith Elaine Oelke, 83 of Monona, Iowa passed away Monday, April 3, 2023 at Great River Care Center in McGregor, Iowa.\u00a0\u00a0 Judith was born December 18, 1939 to Roy and Marvelyn Grove. On April 4, 1959 Judith was united in marriage to Gaylord Delano Oelke. One son was born to this union.\u00a0 Judith excelled as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[407],"class_list":["post-14481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-oelke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14481"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14521,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14481\/revisions\/14521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}