OBITUARY: Pearl (Bublitz) Urbatsch Miles, 1917-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[Adapted from Mitchell County Press-News online - Posted Sept. 29, 2004]




                        Pearl Urbatsch Miles
          
Funeral services for Pearl Urbatsch Miles, age 86, of Osage were held
Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2004, at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church, Meroa, Iowa,
with Rev. R. Dawson Tornes officiating.  Interment was in the Grafton
Cemetery.  Pearl died Friday, Sept. 24, 2004, at the Mitchell County
Regional Health Center in Osage, Iowa.

On October 25, 1917 Pearl was born to Otto and Babetta (Gutman)
Bublitz in Worth County, Iowa. She was baptized Nov. 18, 1917, and
confirmed her faith March 20, 1932, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church,
Grafton, Iowa. Pearl graduated from Grafton Public School on May 18,
1936.

She was united in marriage to Wilbur Urbatsch on December 5, 1937,
at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Grafton. Two sons were born to
this union, Gene and James. Pearl and Wilbur farmed north of Grafton
for 20 years. During this time, she helped organize and became the
first president of the Women Mission Federation. In addition, she was
active in the parental functions of the Grafton School. In 1959, she
and her husband purchased and moved to a farm southwest of Osage.

She worked as a nurse's aide at the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital
in Osage. Her husband Wilbur was killed in a car accident April 17,
1967. In 1969, she received a degree from NIACC in Mason City in the
practical nursing profession. Pearl was married to Allison "Jack"
Miles on April 23, 1977, making their home in Osage. Pearl retired
from the nursing profession in 1979, having worked for 22 years at
the Mitchell County Memorial Hospital.

Pearl was preceded in death by her parents; her first husband Wilbur
Urbatsch; four sisters, Adeline Kroneman, Irma Gemaehlich, Linda Clausen,
Clara Bublitz; and an infant brother Reinhold Bublitz.

She is survived by her husband Allison "Jack" Miles of the Faith
Lutheran Home, Osage; two sons, Gene Urbatsch and his wife Penny
of Post Falls, Idaho and James Urbatsch and his wife Delores of Osage;
one step-daughter Myrna (Dick) Garrison of  Santa Paula, Calif.; five
grandchildren, Jamie (Andy) Smith; Jodee (Neil) Robertson; Todd (Amy)
Urbatsch; Kathy (Corey) Christiansen; Stacy (Jesse) Hemann; nine
great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Arrangement by Champion - Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage.



Copyright 2004 - K. Kittleson, Mitchell County Coordinator, IAGENWEB