Koenig, Irene Georgine (Bachelder) -- 1931 - 2008
BRANDT, BACHELDER, KOENIG, CONWAY
Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 10/25/2008 at 20:23:40
Irene Koenig, 77, Castalia
Funeral services for Irene Koenig, 77, of Castalia, were held Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. in St. Paul Lutheran Church with the Rev. Steve Brackett officiating and the Rev. Dave L. Lenth giving the Homily. Interment was in the Pleasant View Cemetery at Castalia. Irene died Saturday, June 7, 2008 in Palmer Lutheran Hospital at West Union.
Irene Georgine (Bachelder) Koenig was born Jan. 5, 1931, in Community Memorial Hospital at Postville, to Earl Chester and Hattie Lizzie (Brandt) Bachelder. Irene received her education in the Castalia and Postville Schools.
September 2, 1947, Irene married Orville William Koenig in the Little Brown Church at Nashua. They had five children and farmed in the Castalia area all their lives.
Irene enjoyed history and saved clippings and photographs for scrapbooks that she created. She especially enjoyed collecting information for maintaining the Bachelder/Brandt and Koenig family trees as well as the articles relating to her children and grandchildren's school activities. Another favorite pastime was photographing the various family houses in Castalia and along Highway 52 between Postville and Castalia. She also worked on woodcrafts, collected Shirley Temple memorabilia and trains relating to her father's occupation as a depot agent. Irene was a volunteer in the elementary school, assisting teachers with their classes for several years. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband: Orville; a son-in-law: Patrick Conway; and a brother: George Bachelder.
Survivors include her four children: Sally Conway, Postville, Reid (Marsha) Koenig, Waverly, and Gale (Kathy) Koenig and Daniel Koenig, all of Castalia; 13 grandchildren: Scott (Marie) Conway, Brian (Stacy) Conway, Todd (Gretchen) Conway, Sara (Sergio) Calderon, Kristi (Shane) Frost, Anne, Laura and Jennifer Koenig, Betsy, Eric and Samantha Koenig, Rachel and Daniel Koenig; 13 great-grandchildren; two step great-grandchildren; sister: Bernice Koenig, Decorah; and a sister-in-law: Loretta Bachelder, Decorah.
ŠNewspapers of Fayette County, June 18, 2008
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