Koch, Minnie (Rosenbrook) 1871-1969

KOCH, ROSENBROOK

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 11/16/2011 at 08:34:54

Obituary. Mrs. Henry Koch.
Mrs. Henry (Minnie) Koch, 97, longtime Remsen resident, died Friday at Happy Siesta Nursing home there after a long illness. She had resided at the home since its opening in 1965. She was one of Plymouth county’s oldest residents.
The former Minnie Rosenbrook, she was born in Germany Sept. 27, 1871, and came to the United States in 1889. She was married March 6, 1894 and the couple farmed near Remsen until 1910 and moved to Remsen where he became a rural mail carrier. He died in 1934.
She was a charter member of the American Legion auxiliary oat Remsen and a member of the ladies aid society.
Funeral services will be Tuesday (July 1) at 2 p.m. at Christ Lutheran church with Rev. Alfred Christiansen officiating. Burial will be in the Remsen city cemetery under direction of the Moeller funeral home.
Survivors are a son, Rev. Arthur S. Koch, Mountain Home, Ark.; four grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Her son was a dentist in Waterloo for the last 32 years, and was in the process of moving to Mountain Grove on the day of his mother’s death.
She was preceded in death by her husband and another son, Herman Koch, who died in 1964. He had been a longtime Iowa Public Service executive in Sioux City. – Le Mars Globe Post, Monday, June 30, 1969