Mary Ann Hestermann
Mary Ann Hestermann
April 8, 1931 - June 27, 2024
ary Ann Hestermann, 93, of Inver Grove Heights, MN, formerly of Sterling, died June 27, 2024. She was born on April 8, 1931 in Beatrice to Louie and Anna (Harms) Petersen. Mary Ann graduated from Sterling High School in 1949. She taught school at Dist #11 for three years. On June 22, 1952 she married Floyd Hestermann. Following Floyd's discharge from the Air Force, they started farming south of Sterling. Mary Ann was an active member of St. John Lutheran Church of Sterling, the Zee to Aye Extension Club, a member of the Sterling American Legion Auxiliary and Beatrice Eagles Auxiliary. Mary Ann co-founded the Kool Kats in Red Hats organization in Sterling. Following the death of her husband, she worked as a receptionist in dental offices in Beatrice and Sterling. She became a Pioneer Foster Grandparent working with the St. Andrew Catholic School in Tecumseh. In 2018, Mary Ann moved to Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota to be near her daughter's family. She volunteered with Sewing for Babies. We remember her as direct in her views and appreciated her knack for conversation.
Survivors include her son, John (Karan) Hestermann of Waverly; daughter, Anne (Anthony) DePalma of Inver Grove Heights, MN; three grandchildren, Benjamin (Amy) Hestermann, Logan (Karen) Hestermann and Natalie DePalma; three great grandchildren; brother-in-law, Eldon (Sharon) Hestermann; sisters-in-law, Charlotte Petersen, Alyce (Jim) Weiss, Martha Menard, and Barb (John) MacKichan; 4 step-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Floyd; parents, Louie and Anna Petersen; brother, Richard Petersen; sister, Lois Buss; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, LaVerne Buss, Robert and Joan Hestermann, Marvin and Janice Hestermann, John Menard, Arlo and Delores Wittstock, and Jan Rosekrans.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Saturday, July 6, 2024, at St. John Lutheran Church of Sterling with Pastor Doyle Karst officiating. A family prayer service will be held at 10:15 A.M. on Saturday at the church. Burial will be at the Sterling Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Zink-Fox Funeral Home on Friday, July 5, 2024, from noon until 8:00 P.M. with the family greeting relatives and friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M.
In lieu of flowers, a memorial has been established to the family's choice.
www.foxfuneralhome.net Arrangements entrusted to Zink-Fox Funeral Home of Sterling.
