Alexandria Hedwig Kurzen

Alexandria Hedwig Kurzen

Fairfield

Alexandria Hedwig Kurzen died of health complications and a suspected heart attack on the morning of Sunday, April 2, 2023, in her Fairfield, Iowa, home. She is survived by four siblings, Noelle, Reinhard, Raphaela and Frederic.

Alex was born on October 18, 1985, in Orange, California. Later, as a teen measuring 6 feet tall, Alex was a powerhouse of grace and beauty. She played basketball for 3 years at MSAE, and later Santa Barbara City College. Alex then rowed for a time on the Crew Team before graduating from the University of Iowa in 2008, with her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts.

Alexandria “Lebenskunstlerin” Artist of Life, worked at many odd jobs but managed finally to support herself as a poet, painter and a wood-worker, which continued to celebrate her awe and reverence for Nature. Alex was also a world traveler. She filled countless pages of both her German and American Passports. She especially loved reconnecting with her European roots and spending time on her grandparents’ horse and Bio-Farm Gut Wewel in Westfalia.

Alexandria Hedwig graced the world with 37 years of her wild beauty and talent as a muse. She found ways to uplift and motivate friends and family to “Stand up and sing, paint, and dance your heart out!”she'd say, and often quoted from The Wind in the Willows, “It’s the wind that will make it strong.”

Alexandria Hedwig, daughter, sister, niece, auntie, will be forever loved and missed by her family of four remaining siblings, two nieces, a nephew, countless cousins, of the Litwin, Ryan and Kurzen families, and beloved friends, and especially by her ever dedicated and loving parents, Reinhard Eugen and Mary Anne Kurzen.

In her honor write a poem, blow someone a kiss, carry on her little kindnesses, care for those in need, find beauty in everything, and most of all find beauty in your own life and remember that each of you is perfect just the way you are—remember to tell yourself, “I love you,”and let her beautiful smile shine forever in our hearts.

We plan to have a memorial July 15, 2023, in Fairfield. All are welcome. Please reach out to Noelle at (661) 317-3443 or noellekurzen@yahoo.com for more info.

To be, or not to be, that is the question:

Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles

And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,

No more; and by a sleep to say we end

The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks

That flesh is heir to: ‘tis a consummation

Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub: