Mae (Wintrick) Barrett - 1915-1988

WINTRICK, HAMMON, BARRETT, SCHLEE

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 1/26/2011 at 18:41:51

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, March 8, 1988
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Mae Barrett of Waukon, Iowa died Wednesday, March 2, 1988 at Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, Wisconsin at the age of 72. Funeral services were held Saturday, March 5 at 1:30 p.m. at Martin Funeral Chapel with Rev. Verdon Swenson officiating. Burial was in the Oakland Cemetery. Casket bearers were Vernon Webster, Norman Mueller, Vic DeBuhr, Lenny Burke, Greg Gilbertson, and Lynn Folsom.

Mae was born October 21, 1915 in Franklin Township to Christian and Mary (Hammon) Wintrick. She attended Cherry Valley school in Franklin Township, Allamakee County and on May 31, 1940 married Lloyd Barrett in Davenport, Iowa. The lifetime area resident was a farmer and homemaker who loved farm animals, milking cows and baling hay, as well as flowers and gardening.

She was preceded in death by a granddaughter Donna Mae. Surviving are her husband, Lloyd; a son Gary of Waukon, Iowa; six grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and a sister, Mrs. Walter (Augusta) Schlee of Monona, Iowa.