OBITUARY: Barbara (Torgerson) Meier, Worth County, Iowa


[Northwood Anchor -- www.northwoodanchor.com -- January 08, 2002]


Barbara (Torgerson) Meier, 69, Northwood, IA, died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2002
of natural causes at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

She had been in declining health for a number of years.

Memorial services were Tuesday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home,
Northwood, with Rev. Allan Stoa officiating. Private inurnment was at
the South Shell Rock Cemetery, Northwood.

Barbara was born Feb. 7, 1932 on a farm east of Northwood to Alfred and Viola
(Helgeland) Torgerson. She was educated in Worth County starting with
country school at Brookfield #1 and Brookfield #3, entering the Northwood
School system in 1940 and graduating from Northwood High School in 1950.

She worked briefly in the Anchor office, the Northwood Theater and for
several years as a switchboard operator in the local telephone office.

She married Ken Meier at Manly in a wedding ceremony officiated by her
paternal grandfather the late Rev. A. J. Torgerson. Later the couple
relocated to the Chicago area as Ken pursued a career in the trucking
industry. Upon his retirement in 1993 they returned to Northwood.

Barbara's special interests included cats, extensive reading, indoor
flowers and bird watching.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ken; a son Kyle; a sister Margaret
and her parents.

Survivors include her son Kal and his wife Pam of LaPorte, TX and a brother
Don Torgerson of Yorba Linda, CA.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, Northwood, was in charge of arrangements.





Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
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