CROOKS, Gretchen A. c1974-2012

CROOKS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/31/2012 at 22:21:27

Gretchen A. Crooks

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OSAGE, IOWA - Gretchen A. Crooks, 37, of 3955 Cameo Ave, Osage, died Saturday March 24, 2012, at her home.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Friday, March 30, at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, 100 First St. N.E., Mason City. Officiating will be the Rev. Paul M. Schaefer of Plymouth Baptist Church and the Rev. Patti Aurand of the First Congregational Church. Visitation will be from 3-9 p.m. Thursday at Fullerton Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City. Following the funeral Gretchen will be cremated.

Condolences may be shared with the family at www.Fullertonfh.com .

Other arrangements are incomplete at Fullerton Funeral Home, 123 Second St. S.E., Mason City, Iowa, 50401, 641-423-8676.

[ Globe Gazette online, March 28, 2012 ]
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13-year-old Suspected of
killing North Iowa Woman

Authorities have taken a teenage boy into custody on suspicion of shooting to death a 37-year-old woman in northern Iowa.

Mitchell County Sheriff Curt Younker said in a news release Monday that deputies were called to a residence about eight miles west of Osage a little after 7:30 p.m. Saturday. Officers found Gretchen Crooks dead inside the house.

Younker says an autopsy determined that she died of several gunshot wounds.

The 13-year-old boy has been taken to the North Iowa Juvenile Detention Center in Waterloo.

The sheriff didn't release any other details about the shooting. Younker says he won't release the boy's name because of the boy's age. Younker also says he won't comment on whether Crooks knew the boy.

Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Associated Press -- Monday, March 26, 2012