Laura Ambuehl age 97 died Saturday, June 29, 2019 at the Monticello Nursing and Rehabilitation Center following an extended illness.

Funeral services will be held 11:00 Friday morning, July 5, 2019 at the St. Matthew Lutheran Church Monticello where friends may call after 9:30. Interment will be in the Oakwood Cemetery, Monticello. Pastor David Raemisch will officiate at the services. Goettsch Funeral Home, Monticello has taken Laura and her family into their care.

Surviving is her daughter , Joanne Schenck, her grandson David (Kim) Schenck Jr., 4 great-grandchildren, Lindsay Shover, Shelby (Tyler) Cavanaugh, D.J. (Tiffany) Schenck and Mitchel (Jillian) Schenck. 10 great -great-grandchildren, Keegan, Brody, Chase, Dylan, Korbin and Channing, Jackson, McCaelyn, Kellen and Charlotte, her sister, Elaine Buol. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Leo, her son-in-law, David Schenck, an infant grandson, Arnold, a granddaughter Michelle Ehlers, and a great-great-granddaughter Kenna Jean, 4 brothers, Garriet Jr., Henry, Harvey and John, 7 sisters, Catherine Folkers, Beverly Wolf, Amy Ulferts, Berdina Steuri, Bernice Delaney , Iona Kremer and Lina Harms.

Laura Louise Harms was born April 29, 1922 at Lockhart, Minnesota. She was the daughter of Garriet and Elise Schlemmer, Harms Sr.. She received her education in the rural schools near her home. Laura married Leo Ambuehl on June 20, 1941 at the Little Brown Church, Nashua. The couple made their home in Monticello. Laura worked at the Button Factory in Monticello. She was employed at Rockwell Collins in Cedar Rapids for 26 years where she did Radio Repair.

She enjoyed camping, fishing and mushroom hunting with her family. She also helped Dr. Joan Nichols fly and recover her hot air-balloons, Puff and Puff Baby all over the United States. Every year on her birthday she would take a ride with her grandson David on his Harley.