Fred Corydon Herren (1944)

HERREN, MACK, MAYER, ROSS, SHELL, ST JOHN, WOLFE

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 8/11/2006 at 15:10:10

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, June 14, 1944

Fred C. Herren, member of a pioneer Madison county family and a prominent farmer in Grand River township for many years, died last Saturday in Macksburg at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lela Wolfe. He was 84 years of age.

Mr. Herren was born January 19, 1860, at Waterville, Vt., the son of Robert and Sophia Herren. When he was nine years old he came with his parents to Winterset, where he worked with his father in the old Munger and White Wollen mills, west of the city, until 1876. The family then moved to a farm in Grand River township.

As a young man he taught in the public schools of Madison and Adair county for a number of years.

On Nov. 18, 1885, he was married to Alice Mack. They were the parents of five children, all of whom survive their father. The wife died in 1923.

His church affiliation was in the congregational church, and later in the Macksburg Methodist church, where he was long an active member.

He is survived by his five children, Coyt R. Herren, Mrs. Lela Wolfe and Dean Herren, all of Macksburg, Mrs. Flo Wolfe of Dexter and Ray M. Herren of Springdale, Ark.; 13 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Addie St. John of Des Moines, and Mrs. Belle Shell of Macksburg; a brother, C. M. Herren of LaJunta, Colo.; two half sisters, Mrs. Glen Mayer of Brady, Mont., and Mrs. Dell Ross of Chin, Alberta, Canada.

Funeral services were held Tuesday from the Macksburg Methodist church, and burial was made in the Moon cemetery near Macksburg.
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Coordinator's note: Middle name taken from his Iowa Death Certificate.

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