Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Cleona Wyen
Former Minster resident Cleona C. Wyen, 90, died at 4:05 p.m. Jan. 12, 2012, at Briarwood Manor, Coldwater, where she had been a patient for two years.
She was born March 3, 1921, in St. Patrick to Joseph and Henrietta Alternatt Meyer. On June 3, 1941, she married Victor A. Wyen, who died May 26, 1974.
Surviving are children, Rev. Larry Wyen, Coldwater, Kathy (Steven) Arshan, New Jersey, David (Jane) Wyen, Texas, Dennis (Winnie) Wyen, Troy, Jim Wyen, Minster, Vicki (Max) Cotterman, New Bremen, Carol (Rick) Hoffman, Cincinnati, Mary Kay Wyen, Minster, Ted (Tina) Wyen, Enon, Philip (Diane) Wyen, Minster, and Doug Wyen, Sidney; siblings, Vernon Meyer, Fort Loramie, and Lawrence (Helen) Meyer, McCartyville; sisters-in-law, Betty Wyen, Minster, and Phyllis Peoppelman, Egypt; 25 grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
Deceased are son, Richard Wyen; three sisters; three brothers; three infant siblings; and two grandchildren.
She was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church, Minster and was a past sacristan. She volunteered with Mission Comission and the garage sale. She was a member of the Auglaize County Board of Mental Retardation.
A homemaker, she had worked at Wyen and Cotterman, Minster Canning Factory and KMart.
Funeral Mass is 10 a.m. Wednesday at the church, the Revs. Larry Wyen and Nick Nieberding officiating. Burial will follow in the St. Augustine Cemetery.
Calling is 3-8 p.m. Tuesday and 9-9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Hogenkamp Funeral Home, Minster.
