Irene (Voshell) Miersen Schmidt - 1905-1986

VOSHELL, MIERSEN, SCHMIDT, AXMEAR, ERB, PHILLIPS, BLOCKHAUS, ANDERMAN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 3/1/2011 at 21:56:21

SOURCE: Elkader, Iowa MARKET BASKET, July 1986, (uncertain of the specific date)
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Irene Schmidt were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, June 30, 1986 at the Presbyterian Church in Wadena, Iowa. Interment was in the Wadena Cemetery. The Reverend William Straka, chaplain of the Lutheran Home at Strawberry Point, officiated. Roy Murphy and Steven Torson were the casketbearers.

Irene Bertha, daughter of Calvin and Minerva Voshell, was born February 25, 1905 in the rural area of Wadena, Iowa. She was baptized in the Methodist Faith. She received her education in the Wadena Schools. In 1927, she married Clifford Miersen. The couple lived in the Strawberry Point, Iowa area.

On January 2, 1945, Irene married Henry Schmidt at the Methodist Church parsonage in Strawberry Point, Iowa. The couple lived in the Volga and Strawberry Point areas until the mid-1950's when they purchased a farm east of Fayette, Iowa. Henry died April 10, 1986. Following his death Irene remained on the farm. She died at Mercy Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, of cancer on Thursday, June 26, 1986 at the age of 81 years.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; one son Dennis Schmidt; one great-granddaughter, Catherine Lynn Erb; 3 brothers, Luther Voshell, Lyle Voshell, and Howard Voshell; 5 sisters, May Voshell, Nettie Voshell, Mattie Phillips, Edna Blockhaus, and Jessie Anderman.

She is survived by one daughter, Shirley (Mrs. Arthur Axmear) of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; 7 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren; and one brother Orville "Jim" Voshell of Wadena, Iowa.