OBITUARY: Nettie E. Stromley, 1899-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Dec. 13, 1996 (edited)]
                           



                        Nettie E. Stromley

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA--Nettie E. Stromley, 97, of St. Ansgar, died Thursday,
Dec. 12, 1996, at the Faith Home, Osage, Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Immanuel
Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Chris Gugel officiating.

Burial will be in Deer Creek Cemetery, Carpenter.

Visitation will be held today at the Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home,
St. Ansgar.

Nettie E. Stromley was born Oct. 3, 1899 to Ole and Laura (Meyer)
Halverson, in Wisconsin.  Nettie was confirmed at Six Mile Grove
Church, Lyle, Minn.

Nettie married Carl Stromley on Feb. 19, 1919, at First Lutheran Church,
St. Ansgar.

Nettie resided most of her life in the Carpenter and Mona areas.

Nettie is survived by her children, Loretta Hofland and her
husband, Ira, Lyle, Minn.; Ruth Patterson and her husband, Darrell,
St. Ansgar; Louise McPhail and her husband, Robert, Osage; Mary
Jane Rieman and her husband, Jurn, Rudd; Rose Rekow, Inver Grove
Heights, Minn.; Inez Hommez and her husband, Francis, of Osage;
Carl Jr. and his wife, Jackie, Lily Lake, Ill.; Gladys Groth
and her husband, Arnold, St. Ansgar; Kenneth Stromley, St. Ansgar;
Lillian Warrington, St. Ansgar; Betty Tollefson and her husband,
David, Lamberton, Minn.; and Diane Petznick and her husband,
Glen, St. Ansgar; 47 grandchildren; 80 great-grandchildren; and
15 great-great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, husband, one son, one
infant daughter, one infant son, one granddaughter, four sisters,
and four brothers.


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