Sharon Marie Friedhoff

It is with deep sorrow and much love that we mourn the passing of Sharon “Shari” Friedhoff, in Tucson, Arizona, age 73 on March 4, 2025. She bravely battled multiple myeloma for the past 14 years.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 11, 2025 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Elma with Rev. Telesphore Dusabe celebrating the Mass.  Friends may greet the family an hour prior to the service on Friday at the church.

She will be lovingly remembered by her son, Anthony (Meghan) and granddaughter Blake (Colorado Springs, CO). She will also be lovingly remembered by her siblings: Francis (Charles City, IA), Irven (Elma, IA), Sister Margaret (Greendale, WI), Mary (Danny) Johnson (Tucson, AZ), Donald (Donna) (Elma, IA), Connie (Mosinee, WI), Gerard (Elma, IA), Paul (Laurie) in Urbandale, IA and Larry (Sally) in Cedar Rapids, IA. She will also be missed by 20 nieces and nephews and multiple great nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents: James (2003) and Anicetus (Ferrie) Friedhoff (1981), her brothers James Joseph (2016) and Dennis (1968), and her nephew Brian (2023).

Shari was born in August 22, 1951 in Cresco, Iowa (the 6^th of 12 children) and grew up working with the rest of the family on the family farm. She learned the valuable lessons of hard work and sacrifice during her formative years. She graduated from Crestwood High School in Cresco, Iowa in 1969, worked at St. Mary’s in Rochester, MN while training to be licensed practical nurse. After moving to Arizona, she completed her training to be a registered nurse and worked at Tucson Medical Center for 38 years. Although she lived in Arizona all of her adult life she was always proud of her origins in Iowa. She dedicated her entire adult life to service of others.  She was a positive influence on her family, on those she worked with and on her patients. She loved sewing and crafting and has gifted many family members, friends and benefit fund raisers with something beautiful, or practical and hand made.

Shari would ask that you be kind to each other and to the poor. Please donate to your favorite charity, or have a mass said for Shari at her parish: Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic Church, 1800 S. Kolb Rd, Tucson, AZ, 85710; or at her home parish: Immaculate Conception Parish, 203 7^th Street, Elma, Iowa, 50628.