Alberta Josephine Dieckman (Ahring)

Alberta J. Dieckman, 91, of Independence, MO passed away Wednesday, January 29, 2014. A visitation will be held 9:00-10:00 a.m. Monday, February 3, 2014 at Carson Speaks Chapel. A funeral service will follow at 10:00 a.m. at the chapel. Burial will be at Buckner Hill Cemetery. Alberta was born February 16, 1922 in Sibley, MO to Albert and Josephine (Jackson) Ahring as one of four children growing up on a farm. At 19, she married her beloved Herman Dieckman and together they had five girls. She was a homemaker that could sell anything. Alberta sold Avon for over forty years, and was a member of their Presidents Club for many years. She supported her husband’s social activities and they were long time members of St. Luke’s United Church of Christ. Her family remembers her as loving, hardworking, and devoted to providing for her family. Alberta is survived by her daughters, Carolyn Dieckman of Independence, MO; Marilyn Dieckman of Independence, MO; Barbara Sloop and husband Nick of Lawson, MO; Donna Rains and husband Ron of Stilwell, KS; Kathy Bloom of Independence, MO; grandchildren, Kim, Mark, Amy, Nichole, Nicholas, Natalie, Dana, Richard, Nancy, and Jenny; twenty –one great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by sisters, Gertrude Multhaupt and Ruby Lauck; brother, J.T. Ahring; husband Herman; and granddaughters, Lisa and Valerie. The family encourages contributions to Children’s Mercy Hospital in her memory.