Sarah Ann Dieter Judge

Sarah Ann Dieter Judge was born in Des Moines on December 28, 1985, and passed away at Iowa Methodist Medical Center on November 1, 2021.

Those left to cherish her memory are her sons, Elijah and William Judge; mother, Andrea (Jim) Andrews; siblings, Michelle (Dan) Knox, Nicholaus and Abbigail; father, Bert (Dianna) Dieter; siblings, Josh (Jen), Alex, Emily, and Kyle; as well other loving family and friends.

A celebration of life service will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, November 13, 2021, at Hamilton’s near Highland Memory Gardens, 121 NW 60th Avenue in Des Moines. Visitation will follow the service until 12:00 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, contributions will be received by the family for Elijah and William in loving memory of their mother Sarah. If you prefer to give electronically, please direct donations to her sister Michelle’s Venmo @michelle-Knox-33.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.HamiltonsFuneralHome.com.


Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well.

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