Viola Marie Barnes 1920-2003

BARNES, HENSHEN, PRANSCHKE

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/24/2008 at 23:45:56

Sioux City Journal
27 March 2003

MAPLETON, Iowa -- Viola M. "Vi" Barnes, 82, of Mapleton died Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at Eventide Nursing Home in Denison, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Scott Fiege officiating. Burial will be in St. Clair Cemetery, Ute, Iowa. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m., at Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Viola Marie Barnes was born May 26, 1920, in Soldier Township, Charter Oak, Iowa, the daughter of Edward and Augusta (Henshen) Pranschke. She was baptized July 11, 1920, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Charter Oak. She grew up and was educated in the area.

On July 27, 1940, in Denison, Iowa, she married Chester Minor Barnes of Ute, Iowa. They then lived and raised their family in Mapleton. Chester died in April 1988.

She was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church and Lutheran Church Women. She developed a talent for embroidering, which she enjoyed along with watching "Wheel of Fortune". But her best times were those spent with her family.

Those survivors left to cherish her memory include three sons and their wives, Ron and Rose Barnes of Sioux City, Don and Myra Barnes of Mesa, Ariz., and Rick and Denise Barnes of Defiance, Iowa; two daughters and their husbands, Judy and Roger Furne of Battle Creek, Iowa, and Jolene and Dick Streck of Schleswig, Iowa; 13 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Herb Pranschke of Sioux City and Ed Pranschke of Denison, Iowa; and several other relatives, neighbors and good friends.

Along with her husband, she also was preceded in death by her parents; three sons, Kenneth, Gary and Terry; a great-grandson, Geoffrey Barnes; two brothers, Martin and Bob Pranschke; two sisters, Clara Pitts and Lucille Hesse; and a very special friend whose company she enjoyed, Leonard Jungen.