Roberta "Bobbie" Kathryn Snow

Sibley, IA 

     Bobbie Snow age 78 of Sibley, IA died Sunday, April 21, 2019 at Sibley Specialty Care in Sibley, IA.

     Memorial Mass will be10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 24^th at the St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Worthington, MN, with Father Jim Callahan and Deacon Vernon Behrends as celebrants.

     Family and friends will meet for burial at the Holman Township Cemetery in Sibley at 2:30 p.m., following the luncheon after the service on Wednesday.

     Visitation will be Tuesday, April 23^rd from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m., with family present from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the Jurrens Funeral Home of Sibley, IA.

     Roberta Kathryn (Spengler) Snow was born on May 14, 1940 in Ocheyedan, IA, the daughter of Charles Edward and Ione Louise (Cramer) Spengler. She grew up in Ocheyedan and received her kindergarten thru tenth grade education there. Then she attended Notre Dame Academy for her last two years of high school. Bobbie continued her education at the College of St. Mary in Omaha, NE for one-year, Northwest Iowa Community College in Sheldon, IA for secretarial studies from 1983 to 1984 and Minnesota West in Worthington, MN for accounting from 1988 to 1989.

     On June 27, 1960, Bobbie was united in marriage to Douglas D. Kuiper at the St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sibley, and to this union five children were born, Richard, Catherine, Elizabeth, James and Thomas. They made their home in Ashton, IA from 1960 to 1970, when they moved to Sibley. Bobbie and Doug were divorced in 1981 and then she met and later married Gary L. Snow on September 8, 1984 in Sibley.

     She worked various places such as the Sibley Gazette Tribune from 1976 to 1983, Osceola Electric Coop from January of 1984 to October of 1995 as an accountant and also Jurrens Funeral Home from 2009 to 2014. Bobbie was very involved and was one of the founders of “Ms. Musicale”, longtime member/board member of “OFF OFF Broadway”, former President of account section of IAEC-IA and Secretarial Adv. Board. She also served as an organist and liturgist for St. Andrew’s Catholic Church in Sibley, St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Spirit Lake and St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Worthington. She was treasurer of Solid Gold Investment Club, American Cancer Society, and driving force behind the creation of the Osceola County Relay for Life in 2001, serving as chairperson for 15 years. Bobbie will be greatly missed.

     Bobbie is survived by her husband of thirty-five years, Gary Snow of Sibley, IA; five children, Richard E. (Trish) Kuiper of Rochester, MN, Catherine A. (Jim) Catlow of Grand Coulee, WA, Elizabeth M. (Jason) Ellington of Parkland, FL, James D. (Heidi) Kuiper of Savage, MN, Thomas D. (Denise) Kuiper of Sibley, IA; four grandchildren; six step-grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; two brothers, Edward C. (Susan) Spengler of West Chicago, IL and Stephen J. (Diane) Spengler of Crystal River, FL; and many nieces, nephews and other extended family.

     She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Ione Spengler.

     In lieu of flower, the family prefers memorials be directed to Minnesota Friends of the Orphans or American Cancer Society.  https://www.cancer.org/about-us/local/iowa.html