OBITUARY: Roy Wilmer Gentz, Worth County, Iowa

[Mason City Globe Gazette, www.globegazette.com -- May 1, 1998]


                           Roy Wilmer Gentz

NORTHWOOD -- Roy Wilmer Gentz, 86, of Northwood, died Wednesday (April 29,
1998) at the Lutheran Retirement Home, Northwood.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the First Shell Rock
Lutheran Church, Northwood, with the Rev. Alf Merseth officiating. Burial
will be in the Sunset Rest Cemetery, Northwood.

Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at Conner Colonial Chapel, 99-11th
St. S. Northwood, and one hour prior to services on Saturday at the church.

Roy Wilmer Gentz was born on Dec. 19, 1911, in rural Worth County, Iowa,
near Grafton, the son of William and Mathilda (Hanson) Gentz. He was baptized
and reaffirmed the faith of his baptism through confirmation at the First
Shell Rock Lutheran Church, Northwood.He attended and received his education
in the Otranto School system. After completing his schooling, he helped his
parents on the family farm near Miltonville, before moving four miles west
of Northwood and then moving east of Northwood where he continued to help
his parents farm.

He was united in marriage to Caroline Thompson on Oct. 4, 1936, in Northwood.
After their marriage, he continued to farm for 20 years east of Northwood,
before moving back to the Miltonville area where they farmed on the Beulah
Saltou farm for 23 years, before moving into Northwood. After moving to
Northwood, he was employed on the Dale Jones farm as a farm hand for 11
years until his retirement.

He enjoyed talking to his friends and family on the phone, playing cards,
hunting and fishing.

He was a member of the First Shell Rock Lutheran Church in Northwood.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Caroline Gentz, of Northwood; four
children, Junette Burrier and her husband, Richard, of Mason City; Viola
Samuelson and her husband, Fred, of Nevada, Iowa; Violet Baldwin and her
husband, Roger, of Albert Lea, Minn., and Roger Gentz and his wife, Eloise,
of Northwood; 16 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; two brothers,
William Gentz and his wife, Esther, of Northwood and Raymond Gentz and his
wife, Dorothy, of Northwood; three sisters, Wilma Thompson and her husband,
Olaf, of Lake Mills; Florence Bottleman, of Northwood; and Dorothy Low and
her husband, Russell, of Northwood; as well as other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and one brother, Arhur Gentz.




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