Ingeborg Bland

Ingeborg Bland, 73, of Marshalltown, died peacefully Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at the Iowa River Hospice Home.Funeral services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, March 21, 2010, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Marshalltown with Pastor Gregg Davison officiating. She will be laid to rest in the Liscomb Cemetery. Friends may call at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home from 4:00-6:00 p.m. on Saturday. Memorials may be directed to Iowa River Hospice. For condolences, please visit www.mitchellfh.com. The Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Ingeborg and her family. Phone 641-844-1234. Ingeborg was born in 1936 in Pfungstadt, Germany to Christian and Selma (Stoltze) Backhaus. She was raised and educated in Darmstadt, Germany. Left to cherish her memory are her children Jeanette (Douglas) Hyde of Richardson, Texas and Jim (Heidi) Simmons of Hortonville, Wisconsin; her three grandchildren Brandon (Becky), Elisabeth and Katherine; and her sisters Anneliese Bauer of Germany and Erika (John) Clemens of Marshalltown. Ingeborg was preceded in death by her husband Gift; her parents; and her brother Wilhelm Willi Backhaus.