Karen A. (Schultz) Leppert, 84, of Lansing joined her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Tuesday, November 29, 2022 at Northgate Care Center in Waukon, following a long and courageous battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held Saturday, December 3 at 11 a.m. at United Methodist Church in Lansing with Pastor James Buckhahn officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery in Lansing.
Friends may greet the family from 4-8 p.m. Friday, December 2 at Thornburg-Grau Funeral Home in Lansing and also one hour before the service at church. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be directed to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN.
A full obituary will appear in the December 7 edition of The Standard. You can subscribe to The Standard's print edition or e-edition by clicking here.
VMH Radiology Department receives donation ... The Veterans Memorial Hospital Radiology Department received a generous donation from Ruth Boden, owner and creator of Ruth’s Gift LLC, a Faith Stick (lip balm) company, in honor of breast cancer survivors. Pictured at left is Boden handing the check to X-ray Technologists Heidi Ryan and Renee Stokman, who is holding the product. This special pink Faith Stick, along with many other flavors, are available at local stores such as Say Now! and the Copy Shoppe in Waukon and at Touch of Class Styling Salon in Lansing. Each container has a special Bible verse that goes along with the product. Boden created this special Faith Stick for breast cancer awareness in an effort to encourage everyone to remind the women in their lives to get this very important health screening. Submitted photo.
The Veterans Memorial Hospital Radiology Department received a generous donation from Ruth Boden, owner and creator of Ruth’s Gift LLC, a Faith Stick (lip balm) company, in honor of breast cancer survivors. Boden created a special Faith Stick just for Breast Cancer Awareness and donated a portion of the proceeds to the hospital for its new mammography machine.
“I made this special Faith Stick for the month of October, which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month,” explains Boden. “I am going to continue to offer it through the end of the year as a reminder for women to get their mammograms.”
This special pink Faith Stick, along with many other flavors, is available at local stores such as Say Now! and the Copy Shoppe in Waukon, and at Touch of Class Styling Salon in Lansing. Each container has a special Bible verse that goes along with the product.
National Home Care Month ... The Veterans Memorial Hospital’s Community and Home Care Department’s registered nurses (RNs) and trained home care aides travel the entire Allamakee County area helping their patients to remain living independently in their own homes. Referrals for their services can be made by family members, physicians, neighbors, friends, and other health care facilities. Patients can also request their care themselves when being discharged from another health care facility. Pictured above, left to right, in a selfie is Toni Kolsrud of rural Waterville with Home Care RN, Juli Viet, who cares for her. Submitted photo.
The month of November is National Home Care Month. Veterans Memorial Hospital Community and Home Care (formerly called Allamakee County Public Health) travels the entire Allamakee County area offering adults the assistance they need to remain living in their homes, for as long as possible.
Registered nurses and trained home care aides offer a variety of services including nursing visits, medication set-up and administration, dressing cares, IVs, catheter and colostomy cares, overseeing rehabilitation in-home programs and assistance with personal cares. RN staff is on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“The home care people go out of their way to accommodate anyone that they help in their homes and they are always willing to work around our schedules,” states Toni Kolsrud of rural Waterville. “They are outstanding. If they are ever running behind they always call so I know that. That’s the difference between this hometown hospital and the big world.
Congratulations to the numerous students who completed the recent Veterans Memorial Hospital Babysitting classes held Saturday, October 22 at the hospital in Waukon. The classes were instructed by Corinne Cook, RN, and consisted of teaching the qualities of being a good babysitter including basic child care, accident prevention, fire prevention, and first aid. These new babysitters also learned CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) and the Heimlach Maneuver in the case of a choking child.
The students who completed the Veterans Memorial Hospital Babysitting seminar included Claire Hankes, Brooke Hankes, Taylin Dehli, Easton Mohn, Lesly Vivero, Guadalupe Vivero, Eddie Miller, Mason Jones, Mya Jones, Henley Benson, Sutton Jones and Makendri Burington.
Did you know one in seven people entering the hospital will need blood?
Attend the next LifeServe Blood Center Blood Drive to be held Monday, December 5 from 12-5 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in south Waukon. Blood drives are held once per month. The LifeServe Blood Center supplies Veterans Memorial Hospital with its blood and blood products.
The LifeServe Blood Center is seeking donors to ensure a safe and plentiful blood supply in Iowa. Because there is no substitute for human blood, the need for donors is continuous.
Over half of the United States population is eligible to donate blood, yet less than four percent donate on a regular basis. A single donation of blood can be used to save up to three lives and help in treatment of cancer patients, accident victims, hemophiliacs and surgery patients. The LifeServe Blood Center is committed to serving the needs of Iowans by saving lives through volunteer blood donation.
Marvin “Bud” Strike of Waukon will be celebrating his 90th birthday December 7. In honor of the occasion, cards and well wishes may be sent to 707 5th St. NW, Waukon, IA 52172
Carl and Betty (Pettingill) Christianson of Waukon are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple exchanged vows December 2, 1972 at First Presbyterian Church in Waukon.
In honor of the occasion, cards and well wishes may be sent to 523 5th Avenue NW, Waukon, IA 52172.
Nathan and Perscilla Beechy of Waukon announce the birth of their daughter, Ella Mae Beechy, born November 21, 2022 at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Waukon. She weighed 7 lbs. and measured 20 inches in length at the time of her birth. She joins siblings, Margaret (3) and Albert (1).
Grandparents are Joe and Orpha Hochstetler of Waukon and Mattie Beechy of Bertha, MN. Great-grandparents are Elizabeth Hochstetler of Waukon and Sylvia Lambright of New Auburn, WI.
Upcoming Deadlines/Dates
December 5: Last day to return COC ballots
December 9: Dairy Margin Coverage Program
December 15: Crop Reporting for Fall-Seeded Small Grains
The Canadian Pacific (CP) Holiday Train will return to the rails this season on its first cross-continent tour in three years, following virtual concerts in the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021. The 24th Annual Holiday Train will again raise money, food and awareness for local food banks in communities along the CP network, making its way through northeast Iowa Wednesday, December 7 with stops in Guttenberg, Marquette, Lansing and New Albin before a final stop that day in La Crescent, MN.
