Winn, Velma Inez Brodersen – 1906-1976

BRODERSEN, CHARLESWORTH, DONAHUE, LAMB, WINN

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 6/11/2022 at 10:37:32

Velma Winn Dies
Mrs. Velma Winn, 70, of Newton, died Sunday at Park Rapids, Minn.
Johnson-Reese Funeral Chapel is handling arrangements which have not been completed.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Monday, October 18, 1976, page 11

Velma Inez Winn Dies; Services To Be Thursday
Reasnor – Mrs. Harold LeRoy (Velma Inez) Winn, 70, of Reasnor and Park Rapids, Minn., died recently in Park Rapids.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Johnson-Reese Chapel.
The Rev. Glenn Emmert, pastor of the Reasnor United Methodist Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in the Palo Alto Cemetery.
Visitation with the family will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. today.
Friends may call at the Johnson-Reese Chapel from noon today until time of services.
Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. pat (Marilyn) Donahue of Park Rapids, Minn.; three grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Curtis Lamb of Reasnor; and two brothers, Ivan Brodersen of Newton and Oakley Brodersen of rural Newton.
She was preceded in death by her parents and husband.
Mrs. Winn, a member of the Mingo United Methodist Church, taught school in Jasper County and was employed at the Mingo Post Office until 1968 when she moved to Reasnor.
The daughter of Lois A. and Julia Charlesworth Brodersen, she was born Mar. 24, 1906 on a farm in Jasper County, was graduated from Newton Community High School and attended Drake University in Des Moines.
She was married to Harold LeRoy Winn Dec. 31, 1927 at Oskaloosa.
The couple resided on a farm north of Reasnor until 1945 when they moved to Reasnor where they resided until moving to Mingo in 1955.
Following her husband’s death in 1968, Mrs. Winn moved to Reasnor where she resided in the winter, spending her summers in Park Rapids.
Source: Newton (IA) Daily News; Wednesday, October 20, 1976, page 5