Mincks, Mary M (1928-2004)

MINCKS, HERLEY, BROOKS, KLAMPE, RAHN, PRANGE, ROSA, EICHMEIER, OSTENDORF, SCHOONORVER, LOGAN, ROEKER, SCHUENKE

Posted By: Janelle Martin (email)
Date: 7/26/2009 at 22:39:46

Webster City Daily Freeman-Journal, Jan. 5, 2004

Mary M. Mincks, 75, Clear Lake, died Friday, Jan. 2, 2004 at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City. Pastor David Werges of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Charles City. Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday and for one hour prior to the service Tuesday at the church.
Mary M. Brooks was born June 22, 1928 in Morristown, Minnesota the daughter of George and Lillian (Herley) Brooks. She attended school in Morristown, and on Sept. 24, 1948 she was united in marriage to Stanley Klampe in Northwood. She later married Ivan Mincks on Aug. 11, 1984 in Charles City. Mary worked at Birdseye in Waseca. Mary was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Dorcus Circle at St. John, and was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. She enjoyed crocheting, reading, cooking, and loved flowers and plants. Mary particularly enjoyed just being out and around people.
Mary is survived by six daughters; Andrea (Donald) Rahn of Waseca, MN, Lynnette (Richard) Prange of Owatonna, MN, Brenda (Steven) Rosa of White Bear Lake,MN, Marcella (Richard) Eichmeier of Lake Mills, and Mary Ellen (David) Ostendorf of Waseca, MN, and Jo-Ann (Jack) Schoonorver of Cosmos, MN; four step children; Michael Mincks of Webster City, Lanny Mincks of Charles City, Jay Mincks of Charles City, and Linda Logan of Charles City. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren, 4 step grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, 1 step grand child, two sisters Shirley (Ervin) Roeker of Eagle Lake, MN, and Bonnie Schuenke of Faribault, MN, and one brother Ronald (Alfreda) Brooks of Germany.
Mary was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, one son, three sisters, three brothers, two grandchildren, and one step grandchild.
Memorials may go to the Hospice of North Iowa.