Mattie (Hayes) Lenz - 1893-1986

HAYES, STRAKA, LENZ, POHLMAN, YOUNG, THOMPSON, OATH

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 2/9/2011 at 21:17:43

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, December 2, 1986
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Mattie Lenz, age 92, of New Albin, Iowa died Sunday, November 23, 1986 in the Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, Iowa. Services were held Tuesday, November 25 at 2 p.m. in the Grace Methodist Church, New Albin. The Rev. Tom Mattson officiated. Burial was in the New Albin Cemetery. Burke-Thornburg Funeral Home, Lansing, Iowa was in charge of arrangements. Casket bearers were Franklin Weymiller, Louis Weymiller, Delbert Fink, Ray Whalen, Verlyn Hayes, and Cleon Sires.

Mattie was born December 25, 1893 in New Albin, Iowa to George M. and Josephine (Straka) Hayes. She married Elmer O. Lenz on April 20, 1921 in New Albin, Iowa. He died January 6, 1970. She was a seamstress in the New Albin area.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by 4 sisters, Elsie Pohlman, Fern Young, Pearl Thompson, and Ruth Oath, and one brother, Herbert Hayes.

Survivors are nieces and nephews.