OBITUARY: Rosie A. (Hinsman) Pagel, 1919-2005, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Original version was posted on www.mcpress.com Sept. 28, 2005]

 



                            Rosie A. Pagel
                                   
Funeral services for Rosie A. Pagel, age 86, a resident of the Good
Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar, Iowa, and formerly of Osage, Iowa, will
be held on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005, at St. John's Lutheran Church,
1202 390th St., west of Osage, with Rev. Wayne Ellingson officiating.

Burial will be in the St. John's Cemetery.

Rosie died Sunday, Sept. 25, 2005, at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester,
Minnesota.

Rosie Augusta Hulda Pagel was born May 9, 1919, in Rock Township, Mitchell
County, Iowa, the daughter of Walter and Eleanora (Wilde) Hinsman. She was
baptized on May 29, 1919, at the home of her parents. Rosie was confirmed
on March 25, 1934, at St. John's Lutheran Church, Rock Township. She
graduated from Grafton High School in 1938. Rosie married John F. Pagel on
June 29, 1941, and they farmed near St. Ansgar, Iowa.

She was a lifelong member of St. John's Lutheran Church. Rosie enjoyed
quilting, gardening, traveling, and playing with her grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, John Pagel; her parents Walter
and Eleanora (Wilde) Hinsman; one sister, Elsie E. Rachut; and many other
relatives.

Survivors include one son, Kenneth J. Pagel and his wife Jean, and two
grandchildren, Daniel and Jessica Pagel, of Rochester, Minn.; and many
other relatives and friends.

Arrangements were by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage, (641) 732-3706.


 
                        Copyright 2005, K. L. Kittleson