Services: 10 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 25, Church of St. Mary, Nichols. Visitation: 4-7 p.m. Monday, Aug. 24, Henderson-Barker Funeral Home, West Liberty. Rosary to follow at 7 p.m.

NICH-OLS, Iowa — Mary G. Steinocher, 83, died Friday,     Aug. 21, 2009, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City.

Burial will be in the St. Mary’s Cemetery, Nichols.

Online condolences may be left at www.hendersonbarkerfuneralhome.com. A memorial fund has been established.

Mrs. Steinocher was born Dec. 14, 1925, in Nichols the daughter of John and Louise Healey Kaalberg. She was a graduate of Nichols High School and later Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids.

She married Vaclav “Wes” Steinocher in Nichols on Sept. 23, 1948. They farmed in the Nichols area for many years. She also had been employed with Proctor and Gamble in Iowa City for 26 years, retiring in 1991.

She was a member of the Church of St. Mary in Nichols and the Altar and Rosary Society.

Survivors include three daughters: Connie (Jack) Simmonds of Nichols, Judy (Gregory) Wieskamp of Aledo, Ill. and Cindy (Chuck) Knouse of Tipton; five grandchildren, Jennifer (J.R.) Beaver, Jason Simmonds, Brian (Dixie) Wieskamp, Melissa (Josh) Hajostek and Chris Knouse; seven great- grandchildren and a sister, Patricia Matthews, of Iowa City.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband and a brother, Robert Kaalberg.