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Anna Mae Loewen 89, died Sunday, November 5, 2017. A prayer service to celebrate her life will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 11, 2017 at the Egelhof, Siegert & Casper Westview Funeral Home and Crematory, 2659 JFK Rd. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. Friends may call from 3:00 to 7:00 p.m. Friday, November 10, 2017 and from 9:00 to 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Anna Mae was born on December 30, 1927 in Waukon, Iowa. In her early school years, she enjoyed spending summertime with her Grandma Dee in Waukon. Anna Mae graduated from Dubuque Senior High School in 1945 and three years later, on July 3, married Carl D. “Fritz” Loewen at St. Columbkille Church. They enjoyed 55 years of married life until Carl’s death in 2003. Anna Mae was a homemaker whose full-time job was raising her four sons – truly a full-time job! She and Carl attended every athletic event and rang the cowbell to announce every touchdown, interception or score. Anna Mae and Carl volunteered in Finley’s Meals for Seniors program at Westminster Hall. She made “Phone-A-Friend “calls to a gentleman with whom she became fast friends. When she was at home, Anna Mae could be seen tending to her yard. More often, she was “out and about”, working out at Stonehill Wellness Center, bowling, and going to lunch with her bowling friends. In fact, she engaged in all three of these activities in the week leading up to her last day with us. Anna Mae was an avid bowler across a span of more than sixty years. She was active in the Dubuque Women’s Bowling Association, coached junior bowlers, and earned distinction as a DWBA Hall of Fame recipient in 1994. Anna Mae enjoyed occasional travels, especially her trips with Carl, son, Rick and wife, Lisa to Hawaii; and to New York City with her sister, Betty. She valued time with her family, and delighted in every new addition, initialing another stocking to hang for the holidays.

Anna Mae walked with a spring in her step, especially if she was headed to a meal somewhere. She had a remedy or an exercise for every malady (Pressure Points!), didn’t act her age, still drove her car, and led a busy, active lifestyle all the way to the finish line. Family members had been planning her 90th Birthday Party celebration; and now celebrate her full life, a reminder to focus on the good, forgive the bad, and hold tight to those we love.

For Anna Mae, her sons were "her everything". She was so proud of her boys and their families.
Surviving are her four sons -- Daniel (Wanda) Loewen of Baldwin, IA, Roger (Donna) Loewen of Dubuque, IA, Gregory (Susie) Loewen of Glendale, AZ and Rick (Lisa) Loewen of Chandler, AZ; her grandchildren -- Jesse (Traci) Loewen, Lee (Ben) Symonds, Tanner (Cortney) Loewen, Cale (Micaela) Loewen, Bea Loewen, Sarah (John) Gregory, Matthew (Natalie) Loewen, Jessica (John) Droghetti and Luke Loewen; her great grandchildren -- Cole Loewen, Ellis Mae Symonds, Krue Jobgen; Nash, Ridge and Knox Loewen, Madaline and Emma Gregory, and Levi and Avery Mae Loewen; her brother, Robert Brooks; her sister, Betty Jane Kuntz of Dubuque, IA; her sisters-in-law, Shirley Brooks of Kentucky and Mary Hocking of Marion, IA; her brother-in-law, Al (Bunny) Loewen of Dubuque, IA; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Carl “Fritz” Loewen on July 16, 2003 and two brothers, Leon and Donald Brooks.

In lieu of flowers, an Anna Mae Loewen Memorial Fund has been established.