LORENZEN, Martin Henry 1885-1962

LORENZEN, TORGERSON, NEELEY

Posted By: Diane Scott (email)
Date: 3/13/2010 at 09:17:25

M. H. LORENZEN RITES MONDAY AT ST. ANSGAR

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Funeral services are Monday at 2 p.m. for Martin H Lorenzen, 76, who died at his home here early Thursday morning. Mr. Lorenzen had just returned from the Mitchell County Hospital where he had been treated following a heart attack.

The funeral service will be conducted at the Schroeder & Hough Funeral Home. The Rev. E. E. Pencook, pastor of the Osage Methodist Church, and the Rev. Lloyd Brockmeyer, pastor of the St. Ansgar Methodist Church, are in charge of the services. Burial will be in the St. Ansgar** Cemetery.

Mr. Lorenzen is survived by his wife, Cora*; a daughter, Mrs. Hugh (Viola) Neeley, St. Ansgar; a sister, Emma Lorenzen, St. Ansgar; four brothers, Lewis of St. Ansgar, Nicholas of Waterloo, William of Cedar Falls, and Peter of New York Mills, Minn.; and four grandchildren

[Mason City Globe Gazette Friday March 2, 1962]
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*NOTE: Martin married Cora Torgerson

**NOTE:
The obit says he was buried in the St. Ansgar Cemetery, but Mitchell Co., Burial Records 1947-1971 said he died in St. Ansgar but was buried in the Osage Cemetery. The IAGenWeb/Mitchell county cemetery listing for Osage Cemetery has Martin and his wife Cora buried there.