OBITUARY: Ray Halbach, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ Mitchell County Press online -- www.pcpress.com -- July 10, 2001 ]


               Ray Halbach    [1908-2001]

Funeral services were held Saturday, July 7, 2001 at Visitation Catholic
Church, Stacyville, for Ray Halbach, age 93, of Stacyville. Rev. Joseph
Schneider officiated and interment was in Visitation Catholic Cemetery.
Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, in charge of arrangements. He died
Monday, July 2, 2001 at the Stacyville Community Nursing Home.

Ray was born April 22, 1908 in Stacyville the son of Nick and Rose (Brumm)
Halbach. Ray was united in marriage to Gertrude Kraus on February 18, 1939
in Stacyville. He took over Halbach Dairy, his father’s business, in
Stacyville delivering milk until 1946. He farmed southeast of Stacyville.
Ray was involved with the construction and opening of the Stacyville
Community Nursing Home in 1972 and served as administrator for 12 years.
When he entered the nursing home in 1992, some of the original employees
he hired were still working there. Ray was a memberof the Catholic Order
of Foresters for over 75 years.

Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Gertrude on January 10,
1992; two brothers, Wilfred and Al; two sisters, Irene Kinney and Olive
Hemann; and  great-grandson, Daniel Schildmeyer.

Those that survive him include his three daughters, Jan Motley and husband,
Dick of Palatine, IL and their children, Mike Motley and his wife, Krista
and their daughter, Lily of Crystal Lake, IL, Jill Schildmeyer and her
husband, Greg and their daughters, Megan and Emily and Kate of St. Charles,
IL, Nick Motley and his fiancee’ Shawn Dunn of Milwaukee, WI; Ruth Meek and
her huband, Bob of Coon Rapids, MN and their sons, Jeff Meek and his friend,
Jessica Tomczak of Coon Rapids, MN and Greg Meek and his wife, Debbie and
their daughters, Samantha and Amanda Ramsey, MN; Sharon Simpson and her
husband Darwin of Chesterfield, MO and their daughters, Kristen Wald and
her husband Kevin of Rockford, IL, Jody Kalma and her husband, Bill of
Elkhorn, WI; two sisters, Bertilla Mullenbach of Rochester, MN and Margaret
Stolzenberg of Stacyville; one brother, Fritz Halbach and his wife, Marcella
of Stacyville.


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