Nancy Ann Pennartz
Nancy Ann (Lindeman) Pennartz, of Lake Charles, La., age 78, passed away on Monday, Feb. 4, 2022, following a long courageous battle with ovarian cancer.
Funeral Services will be held at Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church, Lake Charles, La., on Saturday, March 12. Visitation will start at 10:30 a.m., Rosary at 11 a.m. and Funeral Mass at noon. Mass will be officiated by Monsignor James Gaddy. Internment will follow at Consolata Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Johnson and Brown Funeral Home in Iowa, La.
Nancy was born May 2, 1943, in San Diego, Calif., to Alvis (A.R.) Lindeman and Loretta (Hoffman) Lindeman. She was the first of their five daughters and grew up on the family dairy farm in Windthorst. Nancy was Salutatorian of her 1961 graduating class from Windthorst High School. She was a secretary, licensed florist, co-owned and managed their trailer park and Blackjack Dealer at the Isle of Capri Casino in Lake Charles for 19 years. Nancy was a faithful member of the Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church, Altar Society and Catholic Daughters.
She always said that dynamite comes in small packages, and she weighed only 98 pounds most of her life. She was opinionated and always talked in paragraphs, not sentences. Her personality could be called flamboyant, so it was no wonder she was attracted to peacocks, bright colors and anything that sparkled. She loved garage sales, tea parties and playing Pokeno. She could milk a cow, speak German, cook, sew, decorate, paint, garden, and make her famous “Rum Cake”.
Nancy considered her most important roles to be wife to Edward Joseph Pennartz, whom she married on June 29, 1963, in Windthorst, and mother to three children and grandmother to six grandchildren.
Her family has called Louisiana home for many years and even though she was a Texas girl at heart, she deeply loved her Louisiana home and friends. Her “partner in crime” and best friend for over 40 years was Bobbie Ogea.
She is survived by loving husband Edward; two sons Mike Pennartz and wife Amanda of Dayton, Chris Pennartz and wife Vivian of Lake Charles, La.; daughter Susan Rasberry and husband Tommy Jr. of Hathaway, La.; Grandchildren Brandon Pennartz, Lana and Eliza Pennartz, Katelynn Stretcher and husband Emile, Megan and Nicholas Rasberry; four sisters Carol Simons and husband Kenneth of Plano, Linda Melton of New Braunfels, Joyce Capron and husband Joe of Wichita Falls, Loyce Huffman and husband George of Archer City; In-laws Janice Jackson of North Richland Hills, Lawrence Pennartz and wife Liz of Plano; Patricia Morath and husband Jim, Johnny Pennartz and wife Phyllis, Bobby Pennartz and wife Elaine, Arthur Pennartz and wife Delores all of Wichita Falls.
She was preceded in death by brothers-in-law Bart Melton and David Jackson and sister-in-law Carlotta Pennartz Brown.
The family suggests memorials to Our Lady Queen of Heaven Catholic Church, 3939 Kingston St, Lake Charles LA 70605, or your favorite charity.
