OBITUARY: Julia Frein, 1894-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[ From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, March 28, 1996 (edited)]
                           


                             Julia Frein

OSAGE--Julia Frein, 101, of Osage, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at the
Faith Lutheran Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, with the Rev. Dennis Cahill officiating.

Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery.

Visitation will begin with a rosary at 4 p.m. today and a Scripture
wake service at 7:30 p.m. at the Champion Funeral Home, Osage.

Julia was born April 2, 1894, at Meyer, Iowa.

Survivors include four sons, Vernon "Dick" Frein of Garner;
William Frein of Des Moinesl Marvin Frein of Minneapolis, Minn.,
and Robert Frein of Osage; two daughters, Mary Alice Merrick
of Osage, and Pat Ahrens of Mason City; two sisters, Clara Mayer
of Stacyville, and Bertha Mullenbach of Osage; 32 grandchildren;
many great-grandchildren; and several great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, five sons, one
infant daughter and one great-grandson.


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