Tuesday 23rd September 2025

Janice Darlene Wenzel, age 82, of Norborne, died Sunday, August 11, 2019.

Funeral Services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, August 14, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Norborne. Burial will follow at Fairhaven Cemetery in Norborne. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, August 13, at Bittiker Funeral Home in Carrollton.

For those who would like to make a memorial contribution, the family respectfully requests they be made to Shirkey Hospice. They may be left at or mailed to Bittiker Funeral Home, P.O. Box 223, Carrollton, Missouri, 64633.

Darlene is survived by her children, Linda O’Dell and husband, Lonnie, of Hale, Kenneth Veach and wife, Sherry, of Richmond, and Diana Cowsert and husband, Rod, of Norborne; seven grandchildren, Duane O’Dell (Tara), Breanne Bratton, Tyler Veach, Megan Butler (Brad), Garrett Hewlett, Lee Cowsert and Jennifer Cowsert; two step-grandsons, Patrick O’Dell (Billie) and Kyle O’Dell (Connie); 10 great-grandchildren; and two step-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Oscar and Roxey Bruemmer; her husband, Karl Wenzel; and one sister, Lorraine Brown.