Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Reese Chapel.
The Rev. Glenn Emmert of Lynnville will conduct services. Burial will be in the Waveland Cemetery in Prairie City, Iowa.
Friends may call at the funeral home until time of services. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the Heritage Manor Craft Fund or Mount Zion United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home.
Survivors are two daughters, Dorothy (Mrs. Merle) Zickel of Rt.3 Newton, and Margaret (Mrs. Robert) Finn of Rt.3 Newton; four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, James in 1967, an infant son, a granddaughter, four brothers and two sisters.
Mrs. Van Baren, a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church, Busy Bee Club and Rural BB Club, had taught rural schools southeast of Newton prior to her marriage.
The daughter of George W. and Mary Scott Shelley, she was born March 12, 1890 on a farm southeast of Newton,
She was married to James H. Van Baren January 21, 1914 at the First Christian Church in Newton.
Following their marriage the Van Barens lived at Prairie City. In 1929 they returned to a farm southeast of Newton where they resided until moving to Newton in 1950.
Published Jan. 1987 in The Newton Daily News paper . From the Dorothy Van Baren collection submitted by Kathy Milburn.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Reese Chapel.
The Rev. Glenn Emmert of Lynnville will conduct services. Burial will be in the Waveland Cemetery in Prairie City, Iowa.
Friends may call at the funeral home until time of services. Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions to the Heritage Manor Craft Fund or Mount Zion United Methodist Church may be left at the funeral home.
Survivors are two daughters, Dorothy (Mrs. Merle) Zickel of Rt.3 Newton, and Margaret (Mrs. Robert) Finn of Rt.3 Newton; four grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, James in 1967, an infant son, a granddaughter, four brothers and two sisters.
Mrs. Van Baren, a member of Mount Zion United Methodist Church, Busy Bee Club and Rural BB Club, had taught rural schools southeast of Newton prior to her marriage.
The daughter of George W. and Mary Scott Shelley, she was born March 12, 1890 on a farm southeast of Newton,
She was married to James H. Van Baren January 21, 1914 at the First Christian Church in Newton.
Following their marriage the Van Barens lived at Prairie City. In 1929 they returned to a farm southeast of Newton where they resided until moving to Newton in 1950.
Published Jan. 1987 in The Newton Daily News paper . From the Dorothy Van Baren collection submitted by Kathy Milburn.
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