STERN, Warren Lynn 1919-1995

STERN, MCKEE, CARLSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/29/2009 at 15:14:34

ROCKFORD, IOWA - Warren Stern, 76, of 211 Seventh St. N.E., died Wednesday (Sept. 6, 1995) at Heritage Care Center, Mason City, following a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Zion Lutheran Church with the Rev. John Albrecht officiating. Burial will be in the Sunnyside Memory Garden, Charles City.

Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the Schumberg Funeral Home.

Warren Lynn Stern was born Feb. 22, 1919, at Taopi, Minn., to William Stern and Vera McKee Stern.

He attended school at Taopi, Minn. On July 3, 1938, he married Lorna Carlson at Cresco. He farmed in Minnesota, worked for nine years at the Oliver Corp. in Charles City, and retired due to severe arthritis in 1975 after 23 years at Armour Foods, Mason City.

For many years he and Lorna enjoyed spending their summers fishing on Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota. His grandchildren and great-grandchildren brought much enjoyment to his life. He was a longtime member of the Moose Lodge #1328 of Mason City.

He is survived by his wife, Lorna; two daughters, Leona and her husband, Morris Parcher, and Diane and her husband, Lyle (Timm) Marker, and one son, Dale Stern and his wife, Jan, all of Rockford; seven grandchildren, Kenneth Parcher and Paul Parcher of Northwood, David Parcher from Navarre, Fla., Karen Parcher of Rockford, Leon Marker of Ramsey, Minn., and Troy Marker and Craig Marker of Rockford; and four great-grandchildren, Christopher Parcher, Cory and Curtis Marker and Lauren Parcher.

Also surviving is his brother, Donald Stern of Colorado Springs, Colo,. and his sister, Emily Carlson of Litchfield, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, William Stern and Verl Stern, and a sister, Edythe Ulrick.

MCGG 9/09/1995