Dorothy M. Grimm Barrett 1920-1992

BARRETT, GRIMM, KROTOSKA, MAUSS, PETA

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 11/15/2012 at 00:19:18

Dorothy Barrett
Estherville – Services for Dorothy Barrett, 72, of Oelwein, Iowa will be at the Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 15 with Reverend David Wendel presiding. Interment will be in the East Side Cemetery in Estherville. She died on September 12 at the Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo.

Friends may call from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Monday, September 14 at the funeral home.

She was born on July 31, 1920 in Reinbeck, Iowa, the daughter of Otto and Mammie [Mamie] (Krotoska) Grimm. She was educated in Estherville schools and attended Estherville Junior College. She married Jack O. Barrett on February 8, 1947 in Jackson, Minn. She was employed by the Ben Franklin Store in Estherville. The couple moved to Oelwein in 1967 where she was a clerk at Connor’s Clothing Store. She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Estherville.

She is survived by her husband; one sister, Marion Mauss of Belle Vista, Ark.; and one daughter, Jacque Peta of Estherville. Other survivors include three grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 14, 1992)