OBITUARY: Elizabeth M. (Rauen) Isaac, 1902-1997, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Based on Obituary in Mason City Globe Gazette; August 7, 1997]




                           Elizabeth M. Isaac

STACYVILLE, IOWA-- Elizabeth M. Isaac, 94, of Stacyville, died Monday,
August 4, 1997, at the Osage Rehabilitation and Health Care Center, Osage,
Iowa.

Funeral services will be held at today at the Visitation Church, Stacyville,
with the Rev. Joseph Schneider officiating. Burial will be in the Visitation
Cemetery.

Elizabeth M. Isaac was born Dec. 12, 1902, in Johnsburg, Minnesota, to
Phillip and Katherine Heimer Rauen.

She married John Isaac on Oct. 15, 1924, in Johnsburg, Minn.

She is survived by three daughters, Bertilla Pint, Osage; Esther Mayer of
Pekin, Ill.; Lorraine Meitner of Osage; one son, Harold Isaac of Stacyville; 24
grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson; three
sisters, Mary Weber of St. Paul, Minn., Odeala Mauel of St. Louis Park, Minn.,
and Gertrude Loecher of Adams, Minn.; three brothers, Leo and Joseph Rauen, of
Austin, Minn., and Mike Rauen, of Adams, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; one son,
Verlyn; four brothers, Henry, Fritz, William and Edward; two sisters, Esther and
Rose; and one son-in-law, Kenneth Pint.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, is in charge of arrangements.




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