Lila Lea Dietrich, 88, Mason City

Lila Lea (Crooks) (Tynan) (Tynan) (Wall) Dietrich, 88, of Mason City, died Wednesday, December 20, 2023, at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center from complications of Covid-19.

A funeral service for Lila Dietrich will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, December 29, 2023 at Hauser Weishaar Funeral Home in Charles City with Pastor Patty Kellogg officiating. Burial will be at Sunnyside Memory Gardens in rural Charles City.

Visitation will be from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 28, 2023 at Hauser Weishaar Funeral Home and will continue one hour before the service at the funeral home on Friday. In lieu of flowers, memorials can be directed to the family.

Lila was born in New Hampton, Iowa at St. Joseph’s Hospital on December 11, 1935, the daughter of Loyal Ward and Carol Lavina (Parson) Crooks. Lila grew up in rural Ionia / Nashua, Iowa and graduated from Nashua High School in 1954.

On September 7, 1954, she married Jerald Edward “Jimmy” Tynan at the Methodist Church in Austin, Minnesota. At the time when they were married, Jimmy had custody of his two children from a previous marriage, Jerry and Jeannie Tynan. Jimmy was killed in a car accident approximately four months after they were married on January 1, 1955. Lila and her unborn child, Daniel James Tynan survived the accident.

On August 14, 1955, she married Darrell Dean “Dean” Tynan at the Open Bible Church in Charles City, Iowa. They had three children during their marriage, Dennis, Janice, and Steven. Dean also raised his brother Jerald’s “Jimmy” son Daniel James “Jim” Tynan.

Lila was a stay-at-home housewife. She also was very active being a Cub Scout Leader, Girl Scout Leader, and helping run the Faith Bible Chapel Youth Group. When the children all were in school, she went to work for Bob Thompson’s Laundry Mat in Charles City and then Oliver / White Farm Tractor as a security guard. Dean and Lila divorced in 1974. After the divorce, she moved to New Hampton, Iowa and worked at Bernis Bakery as a dishwasher.

On December 11, 1976, she married Robert Jackson “Bob” Wall at Wells, Minnesota. While married to Bob, Lila and Bob lived in Fertile, Iowa and Lila worked at Winnebago Industries in Forest City, Iowa on the cabinet line and Bob delivered Winnebago Motorhomes all across the country. They worked there for several years. When her first grandchild was born, they moved to Otterville, Iowa and Lila worked for the Mental Health Institute as a Nurse Aide. Then Lila and Bob drove truck across the country as co-drivers until Bob became sick with cancer and they moved to Missouri. Bob passed away, December 20, 1984 while they were living in Missouri.

After Bob passed away, Lila moved back to Mason City, Iowa and worked for Fristo sewing leather wallets. She then started for Americare taking care of patients in their homes or apartments. She worked for Americare until she met and married Leonard Paul Dietrich.

On August 21, 1992, she married Leonard Paul Dietrich at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Manly, Iowa. They lived on the farm where Leonard was born outside of Manly and he raised his ten children with his first wife. They wintered in Phoenix, Arizona the first couple years but then Lila bought a trailer to winter in Texas for 18 years until Leonard pass away in Mission, Texas. After Leonard passed away, the farm house was sold and Lila moved into an apartment in Mason City, Iowa.

In 2015, she was engaged to Art Swanson and lived one summer in Moose Lake, Minnesota. She moved back into the apartment building in Mason City, Iowa by herself until she needed to move into Good Shepherd Nursing Home after having surgery and needing extra care.

Lila loved to sing, dance, play card games and board games, camping, sewing, making jewelry, and just plain having fun being around people.

Lila is survived by her children: Daniel “Jim” (Sandy) Tynan of Bolingbrook, IL, Dennis (Virginia) Tynan of Charles City, Janice (Dean) Miller of Independence, and Steven (Lori) Tynan of Mason City; grandchildren: William Miller, Leon Meriset, Alex, Benjamin, James, & Connor Tynan, Stacy (Adam) Campbell, Amy (John) Weishaar, Kelly, Kristina, and Amanda Tynan; great-grandchildren: Brody, Faith, and Liberty Miller, Lucas Weishaar, and Lillyan Campbell; and great-great-grandchild, Scarlett Miller; one sister, Pernella (Gerald) Monaghan; one brother, Clark (Mary) Crooks; and brother-in-law, Julius “Bud” Drewelow.

She was preceded in death by her husbands: Jerald Tynan, Darrell “Dean” Tynan, Robert Wall, and Leonard Dietrich; her parents, Loyal and Carol Crooks; three sisters: Shirley Silber, Alice Barkhausen, and Sue Drewelow; and four brothers: Wendell, Russell, Roger, and Clayton Crooks.

Hauser Weishaar Funeral Home, (641) 228-2323, 1205 South Main Street, Charles City, Iowa 50616 is in charge of local arrangements. Online condolences may be left on the Tribute Wall for the family at www.hauserfh.com.