(This announcement has been updated due to the impending weather)
Veronica Lawlor,89, passed away on Friday March 14, 2025 at MercyOne North Iowa Medical
Center, Mason City, Iowa.
Funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 A.M. Thursday March 27, 2025 at St. Patrick Catholic Church,
1001 9th Ave S, Clear Lake, IA 504028, with Reverend Josh Link officiating. Visitation will take
place one hour prior to the service at the church. Inurnment will take place at St. Patrick
Cemetery, Britt, Iowa.
Memorials may be directed to the family of Veronica Lawlor.
Veronica Chizek was born August 10, 1935 to Joseph and Ella (Buckley) Chizek. Veronica
graduated from Britt High School in 1952. After graduation she worked at a bank in Mason City
before attending airline school in Omaha Nebraska. After completing her studies in Omaha, she
gained employment with United Airlines. She started with the airline in San Francisco, CA and in
1957 she transferred to Washington, DC.
Veronica met William “Bill” Lawlor while in DC and they were married at St Patrick Catholic
Church in Britt on September 10, 1968. Veronica and Bill loved to travel. They traveled to Japan
and many places in Europe including Ireland, the home country of her mother's family. Cruises
were one of their favorite modes of travel. They cruised to many places including Alaska and the
Panama Canal. The Panama Canal cruise was Veronica's favorite of their excursions. In 1990
Veronica and Bill moved from the East Coast to Clear Lake, Iowa so they could be close to her
sisters and brother.
Those surviving Veronica are her loving husband, William, her sister Margie Jano, and numerous
nieces and nephews. Veronica was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Virgil Chizek,
her sisters Rosella Daniels, Kay Pistek, Irene Hiscocks, Rita Stevenson, brothers-in-law Lester
Daniels, Leonard Pistek, SR, William Hiscocks, John Stevenson, John Lawlor, Steve Jano and
sisters-in-law Dorothy Chizek and Dolores Lawlor.
Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 310 1st Ave N, Clear Lake, IA 50428. 641-357-2193.
ColonialChapels.com
