Thursday, September 20, 1962
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MRS. ANNIE FOHNER
DIES; FUNERAL HELD
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Fohner, 82, who died last Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Hovenden Memorial Good Samaritan Home in Laurens, were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Laurens Methodist Church.
The Rev. Robert D. Butler, pastor of the church, officiated. Nadine Johnson sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and Mrs. Willis Godfrey was organist.
Pallbearers were Roy Richardson, Otto Tjebben, O. E. White, Harvey Baldwin, Clyde Horsley and Geo. C. Buckwalter. Burial was in Rush Lake Cemetery at Curlew, with Hitchcock Funeral Home of Laurens in charge.
BORN IN 1879
Annie Mammen, daughter of Ile and Emma Mammen, was born Oct. 7, 1879, in Grundy County. She spent all of her life in central and northwest Iowa, with the last 40 years in the vicinity of Laurens.
On Dec. 31, 1907, she was united in marriage to Amos Fohner. They were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a daughter who died in infancy; one sister, Mrs. Kate Seagren of Curlew; and a brother, Ira Mammen of Graettinger. Survivors include three sons, Harvey of Colorado Springs, Colo., Dwight of Spring Valley, Calif., and Marvin of St. Paul, Minn.; three daughters, Ethel (Mrs. Ted) Tow of Des Moines, Inez (Mrs. Butler) Parris of Rockwell City, and Irene (Mrs. Willard) Parks of Ruthven; 15 grandchildren and seveal nieces and nephews.
Thursday, September 20, 1962
page one
MRS. ANNIE FOHNER
DIES; FUNERAL HELD
SUNDAY AFTERNOON
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Fohner, 82, who died last Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Hovenden Memorial Good Samaritan Home in Laurens, were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Laurens Methodist Church.
The Rev. Robert D. Butler, pastor of the church, officiated. Nadine Johnson sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and Mrs. Willis Godfrey was organist.
Pallbearers were Roy Richardson, Otto Tjebben, O. E. White, Harvey Baldwin, Clyde Horsley and Geo. C. Buckwalter. Burial was in Rush Lake Cemetery at Curlew, with Hitchcock Funeral Home of Laurens in charge.
BORN IN 1879
Annie Mammen, daughter of Ile and Emma Mammen, was born Oct. 7, 1879, in Grundy County. She spent all of her life in central and northwest Iowa, with the last 40 years in the vicinity of Laurens.
On Dec. 31, 1907, she was united in marriage to Amos Fohner. They were the parents of seven children, three sons and four daughters.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a daughter who died in infancy; one sister, Mrs. Kate Seagren of Curlew; and a brother, Ira Mammen of Graettinger. Survivors include three sons, Harvey of Colorado Springs, Colo., Dwight of Spring Valley, Calif., and Marvin of St. Paul, Minn.; three daughters, Ethel (Mrs. Ted) Tow of Des Moines, Inez (Mrs. Butler) Parris of Rockwell City, and Irene (Mrs. Willard) Parks of Ruthven; 15 grandchildren and seveal nieces and nephews.
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