BARENZ, George 1855-1949

BARENZ, SCHMIDT, PAUL, HOCKENS, GARRISH

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 8/5/2011 at 13:19:24

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OSAGE, IOWA - Funeral rites will be at 2 pm Saturday at the McIntire Baptist church for George Barenz, 94, who died late Thursday of conditions attending old age at the Falk nursing home at Stacyville. For the last year he had been confined to the Riceville hospital and to the Stacyville nursing home; burial in the Riceville cemetery; body at Champion funeral home in Osage.

Born February 1855, in Germany; there he followed the trade of mason until conscripted into the German army. During army service he was granted three months leave of absence and took his wife and three children to America, never to return. They settled southwest of McIntire on a farm and lived there until 1912, when he purchased a farm near Little Cedar, where a son, Willis, now resides. He moved to McIntire, where he lived until hospitalized.

He leaves five sons, Fred, Riceville; William, McIntire; Willis, Little Cedar; Henry and Charles, Minneapolis, Minnesota; a daughter, Mrs. Dora Schmidt, St. Ansgar; a brother in Germany; 19 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, 7 great-great-grandchildren.

Preceding him were his wife, who died shortly after World War I; two daughters, Mrs. Levi Paul and Mrs. Anna Hockens, and two infant sons.

Submitted 2004, Merri Cross

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Pioneer North Iowa
Resident Succumbs

OSAGE, IOWA — George Barenz, 94, longtime resident of the Mclntire and Cedar communities, died at a nursing home at Stacyville late Thursday. The body is at the Champion funeral home in Osage.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Baptist church at Mclntire, the Rev. B. H.
Thorlekson and the Rev. Mr. Bodenham, both of Riceville, officiating. Burial will be in the
Riceville cemetery.

Surviving are five sons, a daughter, 19 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren and 7 great-great-grandchildren.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Saturday, December 10. 1949]
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NOTE: His wife was Anna Christine Garrish Barenz (1854-1919)

His children are:
Dorothea Barenz (1879 - 1884)
Anna Barenz (1886 - 1905)
Georgie Barenz (1888 - 1894)
William C Barenz (1889 - 1974)
Frank Barenz (1892 - 1894)
Fred Louis Barenz (1896 - 1979)
Willis Wilbur Barenz (1899 - 1989)

[Credit to Diane Scott - Findagrave.com].