Alberts, Irene (Mclntosh) -- 1909 - 2000

CALDOW, MCINTOSH, ALBERTS, SUNDAY, PERRY

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Decorah Journal, Thursday, June 29, 2000

Irene Alberts

Irene E. Alberts, 91, of Decorah, died Sunday, June 25, 2000, at the Harthell Eastern Star Nursing Home.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, June 29, at 1 p.m., at Decorah Lutheran Church with the Rev. James Glesne officiating. Visitation will be held one hour before services.

Kathy Murray will be the organist. Soloist Imelda Nesteby will sing "In the
Bulb There Is a Flower". Congregational hymns will be "Love Divine, All Love Excelling," "Open Now Thy Gates of Beauty" and "Holy, Holy, Holy."

Casket bearers will be Harold Hovey, Walter Mclntosh, Duane Mclntosh, Jerry Nagel, Howard Mclntosh, Emmett Nesteby, Robert Mclntosh, Kenneth Perry, Ronald Mclntosh, Marvin Perry and Mike Ryan.

Burial will be at the Lutheran Cemetery. The Fjelstul Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

Irene Elizabeth (Mclntosh) Alberts was born in Decorah Feb. 2, 1909, the daughter of John and Sarah (Caldow) Mclntosh. She attended the Decorah Public Schools and upon graduation from high school in 1927 began working in Decorah for Alberts Plumbing and Heating in the office as bookkeeper, collector and clerk.

She worked there for three and one-half years and married Freeman Alberts Sept. 12, 1931. They had two children, James Freeman and Dorothy Jean. Irene continued with the collecting and bookkeeping for 44 years.

Irene was baptized Dec. 8, 1946, and confirmed into the Lutheran faith Feb. 2, 1947. She had been a member of Decorah Lutheran Church since that time, serving on the Church Council, teaching Sunday School and as a member of the Ladies (Aid) Auxiliary and Circle.

Irene enjoyed many hobbies including traveling, fishing, ceramics, china painting, gardening and many kinds of needlework. She and Freeman took many fishing trips to Northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, the Mississippi River and local trout streams. Travel included Canada, Mexico and all but three states in the United States and two trips to the Iowa Rose Bowl games. She was a member of the American Legion and Auxiliary for 67 years and taught Norwegian cooking in the community education classes. In recent years, Irene spent many hours cross-stitching pictures which she gave as gifts to family and friends. Irene will be remembered as a hard worker who took many family members into her home and cared for them, as well as caring for many of her friends in their later years.

She entered the Barthell O.E.S. Home Jan. 11, 2000.

Survivors include daughter and son-in-law Dorothy and Rod Sunday of Georgetown, Texas; daughter-in-law and husband Imelda (Alberts) Nesteby and Emmett Nesteby of Lansing; and sister-in-law Grace Mclntosh of Decorah.

Also surviving are 11 grandchildren: Michael (Elizabeth) Alberts of Tijeras, N.M., Patrick Alberts of Lansing, Daniel Alberts of Decorah, Timothy (Robynn) Alberts of Lynnwood, Wash., Thomas Alberts of Winona, Minn., Eugene (Suzanne) Alberts of Onalaska, Wis., Rebecca Alberts of Decorah, Carlton (Joi) Vine of Johnstown, Ohio, Martin (Kimberly) Vine of Center Point, Jeffrey (Patricia) Vine of Oakdale, Calif., and Crystal Vine of Center Point, as well as 13 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson and many nieces and nephews.

Irene Alberts was preceded in death by her husband, Freeman, who died April 8, 1974; one son, James, who died Jan. 17, 1981; one sister, Bessie Perry; brothers Chester, Harold and Archie Mclntosh; and her parents.

Transcribed by an IA GenWeb Volunteer from obituaries found in the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society Library, Cresco, Iowa.