Obit of Farrell, Henrietta Louise Clasen - Canadian County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 25 Sep 2005 Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.html ========================================================================== Farrell, Henrietta Louise Clasen Henrietta Louise Clasen Farrell died August 5, 2005 in Colorado Springs, CO. She was born January 20, 1913 in Union City, Oklahoma, daughter of George M. Clasen and Alice Mary Nieuwenhuis. She married John Francis Farrell in Okeene, OK in 1945. She loved teaching and started her career in the early 1930s in a oneroom schoolhouse in Blaine County, OK. She taught primary grades at Rosary School in Oklahoma City for 12 years, retiring in 1976. Henrietta worked for Oklahoma Health and Human Services from 1942 to 1945. She was a member of the Women's Auxiliary of the Federal Postal Clerks' Union. Starting in the 1960s, she served as voter registrar and election judge, and was a volunteer at St. Anthony's Hospital from the 1970s until she moved to Denver, CO in 1996, and later to Colorado Springs in 2002. Henrietta was an active fifty-year parishioner of St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Oklahoma City. She was a lifetime member of the Catholic Daughters of America Court Santa Maria and a member of the National Council of Catholic Women and the Catholic Women's Activities Club. She was preceded in death of her husband, John Francis Farrell, Sr., and is survived by her son John Farrell Jr., (Fran) of Chelan, WA, her three daughters Mary Alice Ramsey (Rudy) of Parker, CO, Anne Archie (Merle) of Phillips, WI, and Jeanne Haster (Jim) of Portland, OR, and seven grandchildren, Teresa Farrell-Pascoe (Nick), Robert Farrell, Ian Ramsey (Susan Zager), Chris Ramsey (Micha), Devin Ramsey, Katie Haster and Ben Haster, and great-grandson Carlos Zager. An Evening Prayer Service will be held at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, August 11, 2005 at the funeral home. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10:00 a.m., Friday, August 12, 2005 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 1901 NW 18th St., with burial to follow at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rosary School, 1901 NW 18th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73106. SMITH & KERNKE 1401 NW 23rd ST. Published in The Oklahoman from 8/10/2005 - 8/11/2005. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html