GUTZEIT, Louise Marie (1894 - 1986)

GUTZEIT, CONRAD, AKRENDSEN, HARKSEN, BEATTY

Posted By: Gayle P. Snow (email)
Date: 4/6/2023 at 20:54:34

Services were held May 26 for Louise M. Gutzeit, 92, at Onslow Presbyterian Church, with burial at Antioch Rural Cemetery near Anamosa. The Rev. Ron Grimes officiated.

Louise Gutzeit, Onslow, died May 18 at her home.

She was born the daughter of Thomas and Anna Akrendsen Conrad at Bredstedt, Schleswig, Holstein, Germany on March 9, 1894. She was educated in Germany and in 1920 married Herman Gutzeit. In 1926 the couple immigrated to the United States and settled in Onslow where they both lived until their deaths.

Mrs. Gutzeit was a member of the Onslow Presbyterian Church and Order of the Eastern Star Peerless Chapter 435 since 1943.

She is survived by two daughters, Molly Harksen of Davenport, and Herta Beatty of Seymour, Ind.; a son, Thomas of Onslow; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers, and four sisters.

Casketbearers were LaVern Taylor, John Snyder, Dale Bickford, Daryl Wherry, Fred Doulier, and Gene Denniston.