ARENDS, Ella 1881-1958

ARENDS, STUMBERG

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 11/14/2016 at 19:09:24

Rites Monday for Mrs. Ella Arends

Mrs. Ella Arends, age 76, died at the Grundy County Memorial Hospital Saturday. She had undergone surgery and had been hospitalized several days.

Born in Germany, March 25, 1881, she came to Grundy county at the age of two when her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leben Stumberg, moved to this country.

She was married to John D. Arends and lived in Grundy county for 44 years. Mr. Arends died in 1923.

Surviving are two sons and two daughters: Dick and Douglas of Grundy Center, Mrs. L. W. Helfrich of Chicago and Mrs. Melvin Fritzel of Grundy Center, six grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one brother, Joe Stumberg of Reinbeck, three sisters, Mrs. Henry Johnson of Sumner, Mrs. William Springer, Grundy Center, and Mrs. John DeBerg of Cedar Rapids.

Services were held Monday at 2 p.m. at Bethany Presbyterian church, with burial in the Grundy Center cemetery.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 13 March 1958, pg 3