OBITUARY: Verna Anna Ahrens Maxson [1915-1965], Mitchell County, Iowa



                       Verna Anna Ahrens Maxson

Funeral Held for Mrs. Darrell Maxson 

Funeral services were held Monday at Spirit Lake for a former resident of 
Mitchell and Osage. Mrs. Darrell Maxson, 50, who died Friday after several 
months of illness from a malignancy. (Oct 8, 1965) 

Verna Anna Ahrens was born near Osage Feb. 25, 1915, the daughter of William 
and Margaret Dieterichs Ahrens. She lived in Mitchell county until after her 
marriage to Darrell Maxson Aug. 17, 1935. Her husband taught school in
Mitchell and Greene before going to Spirit Lake several years ago.

Survivors include her husband Darrell, one daughter, Barbara, Mrs. Don 
Jensen and three grandchildren of Spirit Lake; one son, Barry of Spencer, 
her mother, Mrs. Margaret Ahrens, two brothers, William and Louis of Osage; 
three sisters, Cordelia, Osage; Lucille, Mrs. Roger Wilson of Dayton Ohio; 
and Marie, Mrs. Ezra Kruckenberg of Lowden. 

Preceding her in death were her father and one daughter, Marjorie who died 
in early childhood, and two brothers, Alvin and Elmer. 




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
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