OBITUARY: Irene (Rosenberg) Boettcher, 1917-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa [Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; April 24, 1997] Irene Boettcher ST. ANSGAR, IOWA--Irene Boettcher, 79, of St. Ansgar, died Wednesday, April 23, (1997) at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center, Osage. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in St. John's Lutheran Cemetery, Rock Township. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar. Irene Boettcher was born Nov. 14, 1917, in Newburg Township, Mitchell County. She was the daughter of Robert Carl Rosenberg and Caroline Anna Dieterichs. Survivors include her husband, Harvey Boettcher of St. Ansgar; one sister, Allene (Alton) Halvorson of St. Ansgar; and one brother, Elmer Rosenberg of Grafton. She was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers. Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson