OBITUARY: Irene (Dunlay) Weber, 1906-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa

[From: Mitchell County Press-News online, 11/24/2004 (edited)]




                            Irene Weber

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2004, at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church in Osage, Iowa, with Rev. Mark Reasoner officiating.
Interment will be in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Riceville.

Irene Margaret Dunlay Weber, age 98, of Osage, died Saturday, Nov. 20,
2004, at Faith Home in Osage. 

Irene was born May 14, 1906 at the family farm at Bailey, Iowa, the
daughter of William and Mary (Jordan) Dunlay. She graduated from
McIntire High School in 1924 and from the Parisian School of Beauty
Culture in Minneapolis in 1925. After graduating she had a beauty
shop for 2 years at Moshers Dry Goods in Riceville before moving
to Chicago.

Irene married Henry Lavene "Venie" Weber in Chicago, Illinois, on
April 9, 1928.

During WWII she and Venie worked at Lockheed in Pasadena, Calif.
until the end of the war. They then returned to Iowa and purchased
the general store in New Haven and called it "Meyer & Weber General
& Feed Store," with Irene's sister Rose and her husband Melvin Meyer
in 1946. They ran the feed store until 1981, when they sold it and
moved to Osage upon their retirement. She was a member of Sacred
Heart Catholic Church.

Irene was preceded by her husband Venie; daughter Beverly Keim;
grandson Jeremiah Iowa; three sisters Ellen Becvar, Kathryn Dunlay
and Mary Dunlay; brother Robert Dunlay,  two brothers-in-law Melvin
Meyer and George Becvar; and her parents.

Irene is survived by her sister Rose Meyer of Osage; granddaughter
Debbie Milot (Michael) of Longmont, Colorado; grandson Jonathan
Enabnit (Sharon) of Ventura, Calif.; three great-grandchildren,
James Egger (Eileen) of Longmont, Colorado, Juliann Horan (Neil)
of Seattle, Washington, Nicole D' Alessandro of Santa Barbara,
Calif.; son-in-law Keith Keim of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; three nephews
William Becvar of Decorah, James Dunlay of St. Paul, Minn. and
Dennis Dunlay of Perkins, Okla.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage, (641)732-3706, was in charge
of arrangements.

              
    Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson