OBITUARY: Matie A. Tesch Torney, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-news oline - Posted Feb. 27, 2002 - www.mcpress.com]


                          Matie A. Torney

Funeral services for Matie A. Torney, age 92, of Osage, were held
Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 at 2 p.m. at the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.
Rev. Dennis Hanson and Rev. Roy Ott officiated.  Burial was in the Osage
Cemetery. Matie died Sunday, Feb. 24, 2002 at the Faith Lutheran Home,
Osage.

Matie was born April 5, 1909 in Union Township, Mitchell County, near
Toeterville the daughter of Otto E. and Mathilda (Groth) Tesch. She was
baptized and confirmed at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Toeterville.
Matie married Leslie Torney on Feb. 14, 1933 in Osage. They lived on the
Torney farm west of Osage and then farmed near Stacyville until 1948 when
they moved to Osage. They spent many winters in Texas.

She was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church and Martha Circle. Also
she was an active member of the Senior Citizens of Osage for many years.

Preceding her in death were her husband, Leslie; her parents; one brother,
Elvin; three sisters, Betty Rohne, Agnes Decklever, Margaret Murphy; two
brothers who died at birth, John and Wilmer; three brothers-in-law, Melvin
Rohne, Lloyd Decklever, Lawrence Decklever; two sisters-in-law, Irma Tesch
and Virginia Tesch.

Those that survive her include two sisters, Elsie Decklever of Osage and
Mathilda Olson and husband, Jim of Horseshoe Bend, AK; two brothers,
Otto H. Tesch of St. Ansgar, Rudolph "Rudy" Tesch and wife, Arlene of St.
Ansgar; a brother-in-law, Vernon Murphy of St. Ansgar; many nieces and
nephews and many friends.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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