Ada Mabel "Mabel" (Schafer) Barrett (1890-1949)

SCHAFER, BARRETT, DEWEERD, DE WEERD, GARN

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:11

From Nevada Evening Journal July 21, 1949 (page 6)

Last Rites Held at Colo For Mrs. Mabel Barrett

COLO--Funeral services were held Monday at the Evangelical U. B. church for Mrs. Mabel Barrett, 59, who died Friday, July 15, at her home near Colo following an illness of about a year.

The services were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Otto Hoffner, who used as his scripture reading, "The Twenty-Third Psalm", and as his sermon text, "In My Father's House Are Many Mansions."

Music was provided by Mrs. Merle Dickinson and Mr. Charles Yeager who sang, "In the Garden", "Old Rugged Cross" and "Some Day He Will Make It Plain to Me." They were accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Ralph Schnur.

Casket bearers were Orville Henze, Frank Brannon, Will Schnur, Harold Smith, Ed Smith and Myerl Shields.

The many flowers on the altar and surrounding the casket were cared cared for Mrs. Orville Henze, Mrs. Frank Brannon, Mrs. Ed Smith and Mrs. Wendell Shaffer.

Burial was in the Colo cemetery.

Obituary

Mrs. Mabel Barrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Schafer, was born March 10, 1890, at Sioux Center, Iowa, and passed away at 10:30 Friday morning, July 15, 1949, at her home near Colo, Iowa, after a lingering illness.

At an early age she moved with her parents to Alexandria, S. D. and later to Plankinton, S. D. where she was united in marriage to Wylie Barrett.

To this union were born two children.

In 1931 she with her son, James, her sister, Kathryn, and parents moved to farm near Colo, where she resided the remainder of her life.

Mrs. Barrett was a faithful member of the Evangelical United Brethren church in Colo.

She was preceded in death by one son who died in infancy, her husband, her parents, one brother, and four sisters.

The departed leaves to mourn her departure her son, James, four grandchildren, one brother, Frank Schafer of Boyden, Iowa, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Deweerd of St. James, Minn., and Mrs. Gertrude Garn of Long Beach, Cal., also nieces and nephews and other relatives and a host of friends.