Shannon Lynn Hierseman IOWA CITY, Iowa - Shannon Lynn Hierseman, 37, died on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, after a valiant battle with depression. Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, March 5, 2011, at the Bethany Lutheran Church. The Rev. Ellery Dykeman will officiate. Burial will take place in West Branch Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. on Friday, March 4, 2011, at the Henderson-Barker Funeral Home, West Branch. A memorial fund has been established. Shannon was born on March 27, 1973, in Iowa City, the daughter of Larry Thomas and Charlotte Hahn. She was a graduate of West Branch High School in 1991, and later received her Bachelor of Nursing from the University of Iowa. She married John Hierseman on June 5, 1999, in Solon. She worked as a nurse at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids and Mercy Hospital, Iowa City. She started riding horses before she could walk, her love of horses brought her to what she was most recently doing, working with horses, giving riding lessons and training horses. She loved and was most proud of her boys, loved her family, many friends all animals and her horses. Survivors include her husband, John Hierse...[more]