OBITUARY: Irene P. Sexton, Worth County, Iowa

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                           Irene P. Sexton
                       
Irene P. Sexton, Mason City, died Monday, Feb. 25, 2002, at Heritage
Care Center.

Funeral services were Friday at Fullerton Family of Funeral Homes,
Mason City.

Irene was born on June 11, 1921 one of 10 children to John Peter and Inger
Marie "Rasmusson" Nelson at Kensett, IA. She attended school and then
received her GED diploma at age 60 on May 21, 1982. She lived in Northwood
until moving to Mason City in June of 1958. On Dec. 8, 1958 she married
Carl "Dutch" Sexton in Albert Lea, MN.

She enjoyed her animals, which included her donkey, her horses that she rode
in parades, and her dogs especially her last one named Molly. Dutch and
her could be seen riding motorcycles and snowmobiles around the area and
sometimes taking longer trips to La Crosse, WI. She also crocheted afghans
for the family. Her greatest love of life where her son and wife and the
grandchildren and great grandchildren. She attended church at First Lutheran
Church in Northwood and was a former member of the Trail Riders of Forest
City. Irene was a great visitor and enjoyed the company of many family and
fiends.

Irene is survived by her son Arlyn and his wife Veronica James of Mason City,
her daughter Nancy and her husband Galen Waage, Rockfalls; four grandchildren;
three great grandchildren and two sisters Martha Von Hagen, Estherville, and
Ruby Koeder, Pequot Lake, MN;  several nieces and nephews and a host of
friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband Dutch of 26 years on Dec. 9, 1984,
her parents, three sisters Rosella Johnson, Viola Stromley, and Olga Schutz
and four brothers Harry, Emil, Sophus, and Raymond Nelson.





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