BARTZ , Malinda Augusta 1915-2003

BARTZ

Posted By: K. Kittleson
Date: 2/7/2009 at 12:55:47

GRAFTON, IOWA - Malinda Augusta Bartz, 87, died on Wednesday (Jan. 22, 2003) at the Good Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar, Mitchell county, Iowa.

Her funeral will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Grafton, with the Rev. Wayne Ellingson officiating. Burial will be at the Grafton Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar.

Malinda was born on Dec. 1, 1915, in Grafton to John and Emma (Glauwitz) Bork. She was baptized in 1916 at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Grafton, and also was confirmed on March 29, 1931.

Malinda married Harvey Bartz on June 27, 1932, at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Grafton.

Malinda is survived by one son, Richard, and his wife, Jean, of Eau Galle, Wis.; four daughters, Bonnie Deal and her husband, Virl, of Grafton, Betty Jordan and her husband, Edwin, of Grafton, Sharon Anderson and her husband, Allen, of Northwood, Judy Hickman and her husband, Russell, of Glendale, Ariz.; 15 grandchildren, 3 step-grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 15 step-great-grandchildren, 3 great-great-grandchildren and 11 step-great-great-
grandchildren; and three sisters, Irene Hartwig of Grafton, Elsie Kline of Grafton and Genevieve Furness of Cedar Rapids.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Harvey, on Sept. 5, 1991; daughter, Karen, in 1944; step-granddaughter, Marie, in 2002; six brothers, Edwin, John, Clarence, Arthur, Walter and Roy, and six sisters, Laura Krueger, Myrtle Rappath, Esther Anderson, Verna Schlotterback, Wilma Graffin and Ruth Dalluge.

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (641) 713-4920.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Jan. 23, 2003]