OBITUARY: Norma Elaine (Lage) Carnes, 1918-2004, Worth Co., Iowa

[Based on an obituary in the Northwood Anchor online - Aug. 4, 2004]

                              

                        Norma Elaine Carnes

Norma Elaine Carnes, age 85, of Northwood, Iowa, died Sunday, Aug. 1 at
the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were held on Thursday at the Schroeder and Sites
Funeral Home, Northwood, with Rev. Karl Hermanson of the First Shell
Rock Lutheran Church officiating.  Inurnment will take place Friday,
at the Sunset Rest Cemetery, Northwood.

Norma was born on Nov. 26, 1918 in Cushing, Iowa, to Herman and Rose
(Schulz) Lage.  She was the youngest of five children.  She married
Douglas W. Carnes on Feb. 23, 1937.  Norma and Douglas moved to
Northwood in 1937.  She was a member of the First Shell Rock Lutheran
Church.

They spent the next 66 years in Northwood and raised three children.

Norma is survived by her husband, Douglas; her three children: DuWayne
and his wife Bonnie of Olympia Fields, Illinois; Dennis and his wife
Phyllis of Muskogee, Oklahoma; and Pam Mahoney and her husband Fred
of Springfield, Virginia; seven grandchildren and nine great-
grandchildren; one sister, Hazel Armiger of Tennessee.

She is preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, one sister and
one grandson, Douglas.

Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.



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