Obit for ARENS, Theresa Hendel (b.1875 d.1954), Nobles Co., MN ======================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, material may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material, AND permission is obtained from the contributor of the file. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for non-commercial purposes, MUST obtain the written consent of the contributor, OR the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. If you have found this file through a source other than the MNArchives Table Of Contents you can find other Minnesota related Archives at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/mn/mnfiles.htm Please note the county and type of file at the top of this page to find the submitter information or other files for this county. FileFormat by Terri--MNArchives Made available to The USGenWeb Archives by: Bob Arens Submitted: August 2005 ======================================================================== (From The Hendel Family History and Genealogy by Julie R. Okenfuss dated May 8, 2000.) THERESA HENDEL ARENS (1875-1954) Theresa Hendel, daughter of Phillip and Catherine, was born 03 April 1875 in Caledonia, Minnesota. This date is also in the Houston County records and the baptismal records of St. Peter's Church. She married Mathias (Matt) Arens on 16 October 1900, in Adrian, Minnesota. He was born 29 November 1877 in Alton, Iowa. They had nine children, four of whom died as babies: Julius (1904-1905), Nicholas (1906-1906), Vincent (1906-1907), and Veronica (1918-1918). Their other children were: Genevieve (1901-1989) who married Henry Slater, a widower with seven children. Their marriage took place on 21 February 1933 in Wilmont, Minnesota. Philip (1902-1934), died of a ruptured appendix on the day he was to be married; Alphonse (1908-1966) married Rose Hartman (1912) and had seven children. He died in a tractor accident while working for Nobles County. Francis (1909-1991)manied Henrietta Remackel (1913) and had seven children; and Matthew (1913-1990) married Martha Ossefoort (1914-1996) and also had seven children. Theresa and Matt raised Doris Bauer, daughter of Margaret Hendel and William Bauer. Theresa died the lst of January 1954 and Matt died 15 March 1966 in Wilmont, Minnesota, and are both buried there. The Arenses had twenty-one grandchildren, 54 great-grandchildren, 32 great -great - grandchildren. ======================================================================== Copyright Bob Arens 2005. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================