Olive M. Wolter

Olive Mae “Buzzy” Wolter, 93, Dubuque, Iowa, died on July 26, 2025, at Mill Valley Nursing Home in Bellevue, Iowa.

Friends and family may visit from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 31, at Leonard Funeral Home and Crematory, 2595 Rockdale Rd, a wake service will be held at 3:45 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, August 1, at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in St. Donatus with Fr. Andy Upah officiating. Burial will follow at St. Catherine’s Cemetery. A livestream of the funeral mass will be on the funeral home Facebook page.

Olive was born on August 25, 1931, in Dubuque, Iowa, to Olive “OJ” and Iris (Wilmot) Keller. She married Alois Wolter on December 7, 1951, in Dubuque, Iowa, and was a homemaker.

She is survived by her husband of 73 years, Alois; daughters, Terry (Ron) Sheedy, Tracey (Mark) Hueneke, Trudy (Jeff) Theisen, Tammy (Don) Zimmer; sons, Tim (Jill) Wolter and Toby (Nicole) Wolter; 18 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, five bonus grandchildren, and 10 great bonus grandchildren; siblings, Helen Gourley, John and Marilyn Keller; in-law Joan Lester Keller.

Olive was preceded in death by her son Thomas Wolter, her parents, her mother and father-in-law Harold and Barbara; siblings, Oliver “Wimpy” Keller, Dorothy (Mickey) Marty, Doris “Cookie” (Ron) Kuehn, Dolores “Toots” (Don) Jungblut, Ruth (Ed) Neyens, Peter (Carol) Keller), brother-in-law Don Gourley.