Ahrens, Mary (Badger) 1880-1953

AHRENS, BADGER, FANTON, CUMMINGS, MUCKLER, WRAY, DUNTON, NOLAN, CROW, MOXLEY

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Date: 3/6/2010 at 17:42:19

The Grinnell Herald-Register (Grinnell, Iowa) Sept. 7, 1953

MRS. JOHN W. AHRENS DIES HERE SATURDAY; FUNERAL HELD TODAY

Mrs. John W. Ahrens, 72, of 1415 Summer street died early Saturday morning at a local hospital.

Funeral services were held this (Tuesday) afternoon at James funeral home. In charge of the rites was the Rev. Leland Mann of the Congregational church. Pallbearers were George Decatur, Horace Adkins, Gene Foster, Harry Bacon, Ben Buck and Ole Lee.

Music was by Mrs. Dolph Miller and Mrs. Roscoe Dempster. The flower committee consisted of Mrs. Hollis Parmley, Mrs. Leo Ahrens, Mrs. John Dhondt and Mrs. Louis Hasselbrink. Burial was in Hazelwood cemetery.

A resident of Grinnell and vicinity all her life, Mary Badger was born in St. Johnsberry, Vermont, Sept. 28, 1880.

Survivors include her husband; six daughters--Mrs. Elgin Fanton, Gilman, Mrs. Scott Cummings, Malcom, Mrs. Irwin Muckler, Mrs. Laird Wray and Mrs. Wayne Dunton, Grinnell, and Mrs. John Nolan, Newton; four sons--John, Claude, Carl and Don, all of Grinnell; 22 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are three brothers--Ellis Badger, Springfield,Minn., Bert and Claude, both of Grinnell; and two sisters--Mrs. Lela Crow, Scranton, Kan., and Mrs. Jessie Moxley, Marshalltown. She was preceded in death by two brothers and two sisters.