Deanna Mae Leichliter

Deanna “Zunkel” Leichliter, 69, of Ogden, Iowa, passed away on Wednesday, June 11, 2025, at the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames, Iowa.

A visitation will be held from 9-11 a.m. on Monday, June 16, 2025, at Community United Methodist Church in Ogden, Iowa, with Deanna’s funeral service to follow at 11:00 A.M. Rev. Heidi Farmer and Rev. Evelyn Lewiston will be officiating. Deanna’s funeral will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/@OgdenCommunityUnitedMethodistC     Following the funeral service, cremation rites will be accorded. Carson-Stapp Funeral Home in Ogden has been entrusted with arrangements.

Deanna was born on May 23, 1956, the daughter of LaVern and Beverly Zunkel. She graduated from Ogden High School with the class of 1975.

Deanna was united in marriage to Larry Leichliter on April 25, 1987, at the Community United Methodist Church in Ogden.

Deanna had multiple jobs, as everyone knows, she was a very hard and dedicated worker. She worked for some time at the Ogden Nursing Home and then from there was employed at Gates Rubber Company for 31 years. Following Gates closing, she worked at Seven Oaks in the winter as kitchen help where she loved serving people. Following Seven Oaks, she worked at Sauer Dan Foss for 9 years until retiring and eventually working at the Ogden Schools as a Kitchen Aide until April of 2025 when she retired due to her failing health.

Deanna loved attending her grandkids, Cooper and McKinley at their sporting events. She also enjoyed watching the Cyclones or the Hawkeyes play, going out to her sister’s pond to go fishing, camping with her family and friends for many years, and she surely enjoyed her husband, Larry’s Prime Rib! Deanna was a loving wife, sister, mother, and grandmother. She was a joy to be around and had such a contagious smile.

Deanna was preceded in death by her parents, LaVern and Beverly Zunkel; her grandparents, Ted and Ethel Baedke and Clifford and Marie Zunkel; and her brother-in-law, Steve Van Pelt.

Survivors include her husband of 38 years, Larry Leichliter of Ogden; daughter, Lindsay (Jason) Prouty also of Ogden; stepdaughter, Heidi Leichliter of Boone; five grandkids, Cooper and McKinley Prouty, and Brittany, Corey, and Hannah Carson; five sisters, Patty (Ken) Caldwell of Jacksonville, FL; Vicki (Steve) Harper of Rockwell City, IA; Cindy Kennedy of Des Moines, IA; and the Triplet sisters, Denise Van Pelt of Ogden, IA; and Debbie (Rick) Gustoff of Boone, IA. And boy did she love those sisters, it was triple the fun! Deanna also had many nieces and nephews that she loved very much.

Memorials may be left to the discretion of the family.