OBITUARY: Shirley F. "Nanny" Wrench 1930-2003, Mitchell, Iowa

[ Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted Mar. 5, 2003 ]


                      Shirley "Nanny" F. Wrench

Funeral services for Shirley "Nanny" F. Wrench, 72, of Northwood, were
held Saturday, March 1, 2003, at the Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church,
rural Glenville, MN, with Reverend Dan Baker and Reverend Robert Kruger
officiating.  Burial was in the Park Cemetery in Nora Springs. Shirley
died Tuesday, February 25, 2003, at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in
Mason City. 

Shirley "Nanny" F. Wrench was born on November 26, 1930, in David, Iowa,
near Little Cedar, the daughter of George and Ruth (Herron) Wilson.  She
attended and received her education in the Mitchell and Osage school
system. She was united in marriage to Donald Lewis Wrench on February 22,
1947, at the Lutheran Church in Osage. He preceded her in death on November
26, 1985.  After their marriage together they farmed side by side their
entire life in rural St. Ansgar. After Don's death she moved to her
daughter and son-in-law's home rural Northwood.  Nanny also was a waitress
for the Sportsman Lounge in St. Ansgar.  

She was a member of First Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar. 

Besides her husband Donald, she was also preceded in death by her parents,
a son, Gary Lee Wrench, and a brother, Richard "Dick" Wilson. 

Left to cherish her memory is her daughter, Sandy Trainer and her husband
Jim of Northwood; special friend, Allen Kruger of Morrisville, MO; three
grandchildren, Jill Trainer, Jolene Cotter and her husband Marty and Jake
Trainer all of Northwood; five great-grandchildren; three sisters, Dora
"Dode" Eastman and her husband Charles of McIntire, Alda "Swede" Toye of
Rock Island, IL and JoAnn "Jodi" Edwards and her husband George of Hot
Springs Village, AR; two brothers, Robert "Huck" Wilson and his wife
Sylvia of St. Ansgar, and Donald Wilson and his wife Janet of Osage;
as well as several nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends. 





Copyright (c) 2003 by Kermit Kittleson
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