Welp, Minnie Greenfield (1881-1977)

WELP, GREENFIELD, LENTE, MIDDENTS, VAN LANGEN, JOHNSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 7/25/2015 at 13:32:20

Daily Freeman Journal, Friday, December 2, 1977

Mrs. Fred A. (Minnie) Welp, 96, died late Thursday afternoon at Southfield Care center, where she had been a resident for four years.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the First United Presbyterian church in Kamrar with the Rev. Marvin L. Camp officiating and with burial in the Presbyterian cemetery at Kamrar.

The body will lie in state at the Foster Funeral home until 10 a.m. Saturday when it will be taken to the church.

Minnie Greenfield, daughter of Henry and Harmina Lente Greenfield, was born Oct. 30, 1881, at Kamrar, where she was reared and educated. On March 20, 1903, she was united in marriage to Fred A. Welp, and the couple farmed near Kamrar and Blairsburg.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1959.

In 1961, she moved into Webster City, living with her daughter, Mrs. Peter (Jennie) Middents.

Surviving are the one daughter, Mrs. Peter Middents of Webster City; two grandchildren, Mrs. John (Freda) Van Langen of Blairsburg, and Arvid E. Middents of Littleton, Colo.; she is survived by five great-grandchildren and two sisters, Jennie Greenfield and Mrs. Henry (Alice) Johnson, both of Ellsworth, and several nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Simon and Eilt Greenfield; and one brother and sister who died in infancy.

Mrs. Welp was a lifelong member of the First United Presbyterian church at Kamrar.