Baack, Vera M. 1906-1997

BAACK, ELLIOTT, GALLAND

Posted By: Doris Hoffman (email)
Date: 7/3/2010 at 19:35:07

Le Mars Daily Sentinel
Monday, February 03, 1997
Le Mars, Iowa

Vera M. Baack, 90, of Craig, died
Saturday, Feb. 1, 1997, at Brentwood
Good Samaritan Center in
Le Mars.

The former Vera Mae Elliott, she
was born Aug. 31, 1906, at Salix,
the daughter of Merrill and Zora
(Galland) Elliott. As a young child,
she moved with her family to
Craig, where she received her education
in the Craig school and Hawarden
school. On June 14, 1928,
she married Walter Baack in Sioux
City. The couple made their home
in Craig. Mr. Baack died in 1968.
She was a member of St. John Lutheran
Church in Craig.

Survivors include two daughters,
Jeanine Grasz and her husband,
Orval, of Craig, and Marilyn Giffin
of Brooklyn Park, Minn.; eight
grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren;
and one great-great-
grandchild.

She was also preceded in death
by her parents; one sister, Hazel
Schackelett; and two brothers,
Donald and Glen Elliott.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m.
today (Monday) at St. John Lutheran
Church in Craig. Burial will be
in St. John Cemetery. Visitation
was after 7 p.m. Sunday at the
Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in
Le Mars.

Pallbearers were Jim Grasz,
Blaine Giffin, Matt DeVries, Seth
Grasz, Dennis Elliott and Doug De-
Rocher.