Dianne Faye Schrage-Baker

MASON CITY - Dianne Faye Schrage-Baker, 55, of 821 Sixth Place S.E., Mason City, died Friday (March 28, 2008) at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 3, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 213 N. Pennsylvania Ave., Mason City, with the Rev. Kathy Graves officiating. Interment will be at 2:45 p.m. Thursday in Lyn-Wood Cemetery in Clarksville.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Fullerton Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E. in Mason City, and again one hour prior to services at the church.

Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider memorials to the Dianne Schrage-Baker memorial fund.

Dianne was born a twin sister and one of nine children to Ora E. and Florence "Endelman" Schrage on Nov. 6, 1952, in Waverly. She graduated in 1971 from New Hartford High School. She then attended Hawkeye Tech in Waterloo and became a LPN. In 1998 she graduated from NIACC with a degree in Mmdical secretary.

Dianne was united in marriage to Steve Baker on June 6, 1981, at St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in Waterloo. To this union two children were born.

She worked at various North Iowa nursing homes and hospital as an LPN which included Good Shepherd, Heritage Care Center, the Greene Nursing Home, Franklin County Hospital, Manly Care Center and then currently at the IOOF Home.

She loved nothing more than visiting with her family including her mother, sisters and her two grandchildren. She would try her luck at area casinos, listening to live bands and karaoke, taking car trips to shop and tending her vegetable garden. From the garden she would can her tomatos and green beans.

Those who will cherish her memory and hold her dear include her son and daughter Ryan and Nicole Baker, both of Waterloo; her mother, Florence, of Shell Rock; her six sisters, Marilyn and her husband, Jim Nordman, of Clarksville, Sharon and her husband, Jim Bochmann, of Greene, Janice Schrage of Dubuque, Carol and her husband, Kim Peterson, of Cedar Falls, Donna and her husband, Roy Snyder, of Winthrop, Marcia Schrage-Silvers of Shell Rock; her two grandchildren, Katherine and Ethan Baker; and many nieces and nephews.

Her father Ora, one infant twin sister, Joyce, who was a twin sister to Janice; and one brother, Steven preceded her in death.

Fullerton Funeral Home, 641-423-8676. www.fullertonfh.com