{"id":17183,"date":"2024-11-12T12:55:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=17183"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:26:19","slug":"connie-lou-koehn-elkader-iowa-november-11-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2024\/11\/connie-lou-koehn-elkader-iowa-november-11-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Lou Koehn,  Elkader, Iowa, November 11, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17188\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-768x908.jpg 768w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-750x887.jpg 750w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-400x473.jpg 400w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-250x296.jpg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped-68x80.jpg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Connie-Koehn-cropped.jpg 838w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Connie Lou Koehn, 75, of Elkader, passed away Monday, November 11, 2024, at the Elkader Care Center. She was born in McGregor, Iowa, to Alvin and Ruby (Kurth) Koehn.<\/p>\n<p>She attended Central School in Elkader.\u00a0 Connie worked at different positions for over 35 years at various restaurants in Elkader, lastly \u2013 retiring from Johnson\u2019s.\u00a0 \u00a0She always had a smile on her face and was ready and willing to help anyone!<\/p>\n<p>Family was so important to her.\u00a0 Connie lived with her Mom, Dad and brother, and enjoyed cooking, and doing whatever needed to be done!\u00a0 She loved spending time with all of her family &#8211; nieces, nephews \u2013 caring for them &#8211; reading to them was a joy for her. Kids played an important part of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Connie is survived by her brother, Daryl (Lori Koss) Koehn; niece, Stacy (Justin) Fuelling; nephew, Corey (Sara) Koehn; great nieces and nephews, Diezel Fuelling, Weston Fuelling, Abby Fuelling, Griffin Koehn, Mason Koehn, Dylan Koehn; very close family friends, Nancy Dennler and Beth Dennler Rood and many friends.<\/p>\n<p>She was preceded in death by her parents; Alvin and Ruby and brother, Tom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visitation<\/strong> will be held on Friday, November 15, 2024, from 9AM until 10AM at Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral Services<\/strong> will follow at 10AM also at Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader. Rev. Paula Anderson will officiate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inurnment<\/strong>: East Side Cemetery, Elkader.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Lou Koehn, 75, of Elkader, passed away Monday, November 11, 2024, at the Elkader Care Center. She was born in McGregor, Iowa, to Alvin and Ruby (Kurth) Koehn. She attended Central School in Elkader.\u00a0 Connie worked at different positions for over 35 years at various restaurants in Elkader, lastly \u2013 retiring from Johnson\u2019s.\u00a0 \u00a0She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[384],"class_list":["post-17183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-koehn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183","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=17183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17189,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17183\/revisions\/17189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}