OBITUARY: Agnes (Prell) Wagner, 1883-1951, Mitchell County, Iowa



               Final Rites for Agnes Wagner Held Thursday

Funeral services for Mrs. Agnes Wagner, 68, who was found dead at her
home near Mitchell Monday afternoon, October 22, were held last
Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Champion funeral home with the Rev. H. F. Risse
officiating. Burial was in Oak Grove cemetery at Mitchell.

Dr. R. L. Whitley, Mitchell county coroner, said death had occurred
several hours earlier, probably due to a heart attack.

Mrs. Wagner was born in Worth County on September 15, 1883, to John
and Mary Prell. In 1906 she was married to F. M. Baker. The couple made
their first home at Chamberlain, S. Dak., and then moved back to Iowa.

In 1919 she was married to John Wagner, and they lived near Mitchell.
Mr. Wagner died in 1931. 

Survivors  include two children, Prell Baker of Stewartville, Minn., and
Mrs. Fritz Hanson of Rochester, Minn.; three sisters, Mrs. John Koci of
Manly, and Mrs. John Banjay and Miss Leone Prell, both of New Boston,
Ill.; four brothers, Leon and Ira Prell, both of Manly, Harry of New
Boston, and Jason of Cumberland, Wis.; and six grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by a sister, Maud.


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[Mitchell Co. Press Nov 1, 1951 (actual death date of Agnes Wagner Oct
22, 1951) Research credit: Marilyn O'Connor; transcribed by Kathy Pike]