DAGMAR I. LUENENBURG, 86

Dagmar I. Luenenburg, 86, of Arlington, died Friday, NJov. 23, 2001 at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Sioux City, Iowa.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church with the Rev. Clayton Skurdahl officiating. Interment will be at Prospect Hill Cemetery in Elkhorn.

Damar Inis (Payne) Luenenburg was born, along with her twin sister, Daphne, on Nov. 4, 1915 in Waterloo to Homer and Bessie (Hanson) Payne.

She grew up on a farm in the Waterloo-Valley area. She attended Country School District No. 24 and No. 30 and graduated from Yutan High School in 1933. She attended the University of Nebraska and received her teaching certificate in 1935. As a young lady, she helped on the family farm and developed a love of dancing. She and her twin sister performed at the Orpheum Theatre in Omaha.

On Aug. 6, 1938 she married George Luenenburg in Millard. The family lived in many places, including Valley, Seattle, Wash., Millard, finally settling for good in Arlington in 1977.

Before she was married, Mrs. Luenenburg taught school at District No. 24, where she attended as a young girl. Later, she worked at Brandeis and began in 1976 as a hostess at Farmer Brown’s Steak House, where she continued until August of this year. She loved to be at Farmer Brown’s to greet and visit with all the patrons and received great pleasure being with her family on all occasions, large and small. Her grandchildren especially remember her insistence that they learn proper etiquette and manners, a task she had now started with her great-grandchildren.

She is survived by her grandchildren and their spouses, Patrick and Carol Dunklau of Scribner; and Jane and Jim Hubbard of Dakota City; five great-grandchildren; twin sister, Daphne Stenglein of Waterloo; and sister-in-law, Elaine Spethman of Millard.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George; infant son, George; and daughter and son-in-law, Judy and David Dunklau.

Reichmuth Funeral Home in Elkhorn is in charge of arrangements.