Cornish, Irene (Mrs. Lucian) 1910-2004

CORNISH, REEMTS, BORCHERS

Posted By: Wilma J. Vande Berg - volunteer (email)
Date: 8/30/2014 at 13:45:50

Hawarden Independent Ireton Examiner September 16, 2004

Irene C. Cornish, 94, of Ireton died Saturday, Sept. 11, 2004, at Hillcrest Health Care Center in Hawarden. Services were Sept. 14 at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, Preston Township, rural Akron, with the Rev. William Kallestad officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Carlsen Funeral Home, Schroeder Chapel in Akron was in charge of arrangements.

Irene C. Cornish was born Jan. 9, 1910, on the family farm near Akron, the daughter of John F. and Katherine (Reemts) Borchers. Irene was baptized and confirmed at St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Preston Township. She attended country school in Preston Township. She was united in marriage to Lucian Cornish on Aug. 29,1931. Irene and Lucian moved to California in the late 1930s and returned back to Northwest Iowa in 1943 to a farm near Ireton. The couple farmed near Ireton until 1973.

She had made her home at Hillcrest since 1988. She was a lifelong member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church, where she was a member of the Ladies Aid.

Survivors include a son Donald Cornish of Ireton; a daughter- in-law, Christine Cornish, of Madison, Wis.; five grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and a brother Elmer Borchers, of Akron. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lucian Cornish in 1984; a son, Darrell Cornish in 1990; a grandson, Curt Cornish In 1974; and two sisters, Amanda Fisher and Esther Heeren.