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Lucena Caroline Phelps, 90, of Elkader, passed away Thursday, April 10, 2025, at her niece\u2019s home in Elkader.\u00a0 She was born March 6, 1935, in Elkport, to Harold \u201cHarley\u201d and Uylanda M. (Miller) Gentz. She attended country school near Mederville through eighth grade.<\/p>\n
She was united in marriage to Wayne Phelps on April 9, 1951, at Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader. He passed away on June 9, 1991.\u00a0 She later dated Ray Marmann and he also passed away.<\/p>\n
Lucena helped on the family farm all of her life. She was a cook at Dutch\u2019s Restaurant in Elkader and various restaurants in the area. \u00a0Most recently, she served as a CNA at the Strawberry Point Nursing Home.\u00a0 She was a member of Peace United Church of Christ in Elkader, a member of Farm<\/p>\n
Service, Allamakee-Clayton REC and other co-ops. She also enjoyed being an active member of Elkader Legion Auxiliary Post 106.<\/p>\n
She enjoyed fishing, boating, her cows, cats, garden and cutting wood.<\/p>\n
Lucena is survived by numerous nieces, nephews and many friends.<\/p>\n
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Wayne; significant other, Ray; two sisters, Alberta Horstman and Arlene Hakert and one brother, Vernie Gentz.<\/p>\n
Visitation<\/strong>: Saturday, April 19, 2025, from 10:00am until 11:00am at Leonard-Grau Funeral Home in Elkader.<\/p>\n Funeral Service <\/strong>will be held at 11:00am also at the funeral home with Rev. Paula Anderson officiating.<\/p>\n Interment<\/strong>: 2:00 pm at Strawberry Point Cemetery, Strawberry Point, Iowa<\/p>\n Leonard-Grau Funeral Home of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lucena Caroline Phelps, 90, of Elkader, passed away Thursday, April 10, 2025, at her niece\u2019s home in Elkader.\u00a0 She was born March 6, 1935, in Elkport, to Harold \u201cHarley\u201d and Uylanda M. (Miller) Gentz. She attended country school near Mederville through eighth grade. She was united in marriage to Wayne Phelps on April 9, 1951, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1259],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-phelps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","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=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17765,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions\/17765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}