ARENS, Elizabeth (Smith) 1875-1964

ARENS, SMITH, STEFFEN, CRUM, COSTELLO, HENRY, LUND, HALL

Posted By: Diane M Scott (email)
Date: 7/9/2012 at 16:35:31

Elizabeth (Smith) Arens 1875-1964

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ELIZABETH ARENS

Cresco – Mrs. Elizabeth Arens, 88, died Wednesday at a rest home here. Funeral services will be Saturday at 9:30 a.m., at St. Joseph Catholic Church here.
Burial will be in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Meyer, Iowa. The Rosary will be said Friday at 9 p.m. at Peckosh Funeral Home.

Surviving are six daughters; Mrs. Jake (Catherine) Steffen, Cresco; Mrs. Leland (Rose) Crum, Riceville; Mrs. Anna Costello, Cresco; Mrs. John L. (Gertrude) Henry, Cresco; Mrs. Peter (Lena) Lund, Minneapolis; Mrs. John (Clara) Hall, St. Paul; a son, Joe, Saratoga; 21 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Mason City Globe Gazette, Thursday march 19, 1964

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Elizabeth Smith was born in 1875 in Illinois, the daughter of John A Smith and Mary Sabel Smith. She married Joseph Arens, the son of John Arens and Mary Mertes Arens.

(the above info is from the 1925 Iowa Census, Bailey, Mitchell, Iowa)