OBITUARY: Henry Ernest Crooks 1914-2000, Worth Co., Iowa



                            Henry Ernest Crooks

DOWS -- Henry Ernest Crooks, 85, of Dows, died on Monday (Jan. 17, 2000)
at the USA Healthcare in Mason City. Funeral services will be held
at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Kensett, with the
Rev. Selmer G. Hernes officiating. Burial will be at the Kensett Cemetery. 
Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral 
Home, Highway 65 South in Northwood.

Henry was born to Perry and Alma (Ries) Crooks on Oct. 4, 1914, at
Dougherty, Iowa, the second of four children. His father was a farmhand
and the family moved nearly every spring, living various places in Mitchell
and Cerro Gordo counties.

Henry attended one-room schools through the eighth grade. He left the
parental home at the age of 14 and began working as a farmhand. He continued
to help support his parents until he married at the age of 23. Alfrieda Pagel
became his bride on May 11, 1938. They were married in the Immanuel Lutheran
pastor's parsonage at St. Ansgar. Henry loved horses and even after automobiles
and tractors replaced horses, Henry still managed to have a horse or pony
around.

The family lived at Otranto, Mitchell and Carpenter, where they lived for
seven years in the place they referred to as "The Woods." They moved to
Kensett in 1955, where they lived for 10 years. The family moved to the
Nevada area where he was employed as a custodian, first at the Nevada
Community Schools and later at Iowa State University. Henry loved polka
music, practical jokes and will be remembered for his sense of humor. He
was a loving father who did all he could to provide for his family.

He was preceded in death by his parents; siblings Wilbur Crooks, Mary Beyer
and Otto Crooks; granddaughter, Lisa DiMarco; and son-in-law, James Loftaas.
Henry is survived by his wife, Alfrieda, of Dows; sons, Adrian, of Story
City and Randolph and his wife, Kathy, of Ames; daughters, Carolyn Loftaas
of Kensett, Glenita Brown and her husband, Stanley, of Rock Falls, Marjorie
Tuthill and her husband, Richard, of Kensett, Cynthia Mallette of Boone,
Mary Casterton and her husband, Gene, of Mason City, Ramona Parkin and her
husband, Gary, of Norwalk, Rosalie Enfield and her husband, Calvin, of
Collins; 22 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and
nephews.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (515) 324-1121. 

    


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