Arleta Cossman

Arleta Cossman, age 73, of Storm Lake, Iowa, died Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Funeral Services will be Saturday, September 11 at 10:30 a.m. at Faith United Assembly of God in Storm Lake, Iowa, with Reverend Darrell E. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is in charge of the arrangements

Friends may call at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake on Friday, September 10, 2004 from 4:00-8:00 p.m., where the family will be present from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Arleta Mae Olson was born July 6, 1931 in Albert City, Iowa to Emanuel and Hedvig (Hultman) Olson. The family later moved to Storm Lake, where Arleta attended and graduated from Storm Lake High School with the Class of 1949. She worked for Drs. Hansen and Prescott for a time, then spent many years employed by TWA Airlines in both Kansas City and San Francisco.

On July 2, 1954, Arleta was married to Lt. Colonel Donald R. Cossman at St. John Lutheran Church in Storm Lake. To this union three daughters and a son were born. They lived on an air base in Alaska before moving to various Air Force bases around the United States. After returning the Storm Lake area in 1972, Arleta lived with her mother. She attended church faithfully at the Storm Lake Assembly of God before she became ill and had to live in various nursing homes, spending the last years of her life at the Fonda Care Center.

Arleta will be remembered as a devoted mother, a loving grandmother, a treasured sister, a caring aunt and a valued friend.

Those left to cherish her memory include her four children: Dana and husband Don Kenney of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, Steve Cossman of Des Moines, Iowa, Sharon Moore and Diane Fogarty and partner Harold Bainter, all of Storm Lake; seven grandchildren: Shannon and husband Hunter Roth of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Marshall Touchberry of Wayne, Nebraska, Andrea Moore of Forest City, Iowa, Charles Robbins, Jr. of Storm Lake, Timothy Fogarty and Tamara Fogarty of Des Moines, Iowa, and Clare Kenney of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; a sister, Marlene and husband Les Grunig of Storm Lake; brother-in-law, Charles Perrin and wife Dorothy of Cherokee, Iowa; step-sisters-in-law: Grace Harrison of Menomonie, Wisconsin, and June Harrison of Altoona, Wisconsin; step-brother, Wayne and wife Arlene Harrison of Elk Mound, Wisconsin; and many other extended family members, as well as a host of friends.

Preceding Arleta in death were her parents; her step-father, John Harrison; two sisters: Doris R. and her husband Howard Hall and Joyce Perrin; step-brothers: Elwood Harrison and Herbert Harrison; a nephew, Dan Perrin; and her children’s father, Donald Cossman.