OBITUARY: George Barenz, 1855-c1949, Mitchell County, Iowa



                          George Barenz

OSAGE - Funeral rites will be at 2 pm Saturday at the McIntire
Baptist church for George Barenz, 94, who died late Thursday of
conditions attending old age at the Falk nursing home at Stacyville:
for the last year he had been confined to the Riceville hospital and
to the Stacyville nursing home; burial in the Riceville cemetery;
body at Champion funeral home in Osage; born February 1855, in
Germany; there he followed the trade of mason until conscripted
into the German army; during army service he was granted three
months leave of absence and took his wife and three children to
America, never to return; settled southwest of McIntire on a farm;
lived there until 1912, when he purchased a farm near Little Cedar,
where a son, Willis, now resides; moved to McIntire, where he
lived until hospitalized; leaves five sons, Fred, Riceville;
William, McIntire; Willis, Little Cedar; Henry and Charles,
Minneapolis, Minnesota; a daughter, Mrs. Dora Schmidt, St. Ansgar;
a brother in Germany; 19 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren,
7 great-great-grandchildren; preceding him were his wife, who died
shortly after World War I; two daughters, Mrs. Levi Paul and Mrs.
Anna Hockens, and two infant sons.


     Copyright 2004, Merri Cross

     Note: I found this clipping in a scrapbook,
     pencilled in the margin is the date: December 10, 1949.