OBITUARY: [Ermine?] Irma L. (Gerlach) Ball, 1905-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; Feb. 11, 1997]




                            Irma L. Ball

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA--Irma L. Ball, age 91, of Waterloo, Iowa, died Sunday,
February 9, 1997, at the Ravenwood Nursing Home and Rehabilitation
Center, in Waterloo.

Funeral services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 13th, at the
United Methodist Church, St. Ansgar, Iowa, with the Rev. Ted Stowers
officiating.  Burial was in the Newburg Cemetery, Carpenter, Iowa.

Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, was in charge of arrangements.

Irma L. Ball was born on March 23, 1905, in Mitchell County, to Frank and
Emma (Priem) Gerlach.

She married John Ball on March 23, 1927, on the family farm in Mitchell
County.  They farmed in the Carpenter area for over 30 years.

She is survived by one daughter, Virginia Wilkins, Waterloo,; four
grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one sister, Rose Nickerson of
St. Ansgar; and two brothers, Wilmer Gerlach, St. Ansgar, and Gene
Gerlach of St. Ansgar.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, John; one daughter,
Dorothy; one sister, Lucille; and three brothers, Ray, Earl and Arthur.




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