Edith E. (Schlarb) Wetrich (1890-1953)

SCHLARB, WETRICH, FRITZ, ROSENBERGER

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 2/6/2021 at 11:56:12

From Nevada Evening Journal April 16 1953 (page 4)

Last Rites Held Mon. At Collins

Funeral services for Mrs. P. J. Wetrich were conducted from the Collins Methodist church, Monday afternoon, April 13th at one p. m. by the Reverend Louis H. Joslin.

Mrs. Lloyd Holland and Mrs. Kenneth Tomlinson sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "God Be With You," accompanied at the piano by Mrs. C. R. Stone.

The many beautiful flowers were cared for by Mrs. O N. Serbein and Mrs. Ora Hanson.

Casket bearers were: Ralph Armstrong, Lloyd Campbell, Byron Keagle, Ray Tiffany, Kenneth Tomlinson and Ralph Vasey.

Interment was in Penn Center cemetery near Earlham, Iowa.

Obituary

Edith E. Schlarb, the daughter of Henry and Lena Schlarb was born in Earlham, Iowa on July 9th, 1890 and departed this life at Des Moines, Iowa on Thursday evening, April 9th, at the age of 62 years and nine months.

On March 24th, 1915, she was united in marriage, in Madison county, Iowa to Perle J. Wetrich.

After their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Wetrich resided on a farm near Earlham for four years, coming to Collins in 1919 where they have since resided and where Mr. Wetrich conducted a grocery business for 32 years.

Mrs. Wetrich united with the Penn Center Methodist church in early girlhood, and when the Wetrichs came to Collins identified themselves with the Collins Methodist church.

Mrs. Wetrich was also a member of the Collins Rebekah lodge, No. 159 of Collins at the time of her death.

She was an invalid for several years, becoming progressively worse in the last months.

She was a quiet, pleasant, and somewhat retiring person, who will be missed by those who knew and neighbored with her.

Besides the stricken husband, there survive her passing, a brother, Clarence G. Schlarb of Ames, Ia.; a half-brother, Joe Schlarb of California; also an uncle, Frank Fritz, in whose home she lived since early girlhood, due to the death of her mother, until her marriage.

Also surviving is an aunt, Mrs. Kate Rosenberger of Ackley, Ia., a number of nieces and nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.