Marcia Kuehler

Funeral services for Marcia Jane Kuehler, 74, of Spencer, will be conducted at 11 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, at First Baptist Church in Spencer. Pastor Tim Smith will officiate the service. Visitation will begin one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be conducted at a later date.

She passed away Friday, Feb. 14, 2025, at Spencer Hospital.

Marcia, the daughter of Alvin and Frances (Sorenson) Miller, was born Oct. 23, 1950, in Mason City. Her childhood year were spent on the farm near Ventura, where she grew up and graduated from Ventura High School in 1969. She would complete her education at Spencer School of Business in Spencer.

It was in Spencer that she met and married the love of her life, Richard Kuehler on July 3, 1971. Marcia and Dick were blessed with four boys, Matthew, Bill, Joe and Nate. Marcia was a homemaker and mom for many years until the boys were all in school. Although she always wanted a girl, she was a great boy mom. She would joke after having granddaughters that God knew what he was doing by giving her only boys. Marcia worked many bookkeeping jobs before starting at the Spencer Hospital. She performed many tasks in Patient Accounts while at Spencer Hospital retiring in 2013 as an accounts receivable clerk.

Marcia was a member of First Baptist Church in Spencer. She was active in Christian Women’s Club, was the treasurer and a leader for Awanas, church financial secretary and played the organ (self-taught) for many years. She loved playing music, as she was a pianist and drummer from her childhood and throughout her life. She also loved to travel and spent many trips abroad with Dick and family, traveling to Isreal, Demark and Cuba. Marcia and Dick also took many road trips around the United States with sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Marietta and Mel Kummerfeldt.

Marcia rarely missed her boys’ sporting events. Many summer nights were spent at Pederson Park in Spencer watching all four boys play baseball. Later, when the grandkids started their activities, she and Dick could be found in the stands cheering, watching a dance recital or a school play. Although she claimed to dislike watching sports on TV, she spent many hours with Dick watching the Green Bay Packers, Iowa State Cyclones and Iowa Hawkeyes games — many times while Dick slept in his chair, she never changed the channel.

She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant sister.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband of 53 years, Richard, of Spencer; four sons, Matt (Kim) of Spencer, Bill (Amber) of Martensdale, Joe (Kelly) of Spencer and Nate (Amy) of Spencer; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sister, Marlene (Jerry) Desing of Neenah, Wisconsin; brother, Danny (Judy) Miller of Ventura; many nieces; nephews; other relatives and many friends.

Warner Funeral Home of Spencer is in charge of the arrangements.