Mary (Nolan) LOWENBERG

NOLAN, QUINN, LOWENBERG, JANSSEN, JINDRICH, HEMINGER, THIEL, JOYCE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/20/2007 at 14:56:00

Belmond Independent Iowa, April 1997

MARY NOLAN LOWENBERG

Belmond - Mary Gertrude Lowenberg, 94, Belmond, died April 19, 1997, at the Belmond Community Hospital. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Belmond, with the Rev. John Paisley officiating. Burial will be in St. Francis Cemetery, Belmond. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Dugger Ewing Funeral Home, Belmond, and on hour prior to the service Wednesday at the church. A parish rosary will be at 2:30 p.m. and a scriptural wake service at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Survivors include daughters Joan Janssen, Goodell, Elizabeth Jindrich, Kearney, Neb., and Therese Heminger, Ottumwa; sons Merlin, Belmond, Thomas, St. Paul, Minn., and Duane, Medford, Ore.; 28 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren; sisters Anastasia Thiel, Graettinger, and Florence Joyce, Graettinger. She was preceded in death by her husband, William, her parents, one daughter, six grandchildren, one great-grandchild, two brothers and five sisters.

Mary Nolan was born January 8, 1903, in Graettinger, the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Quinn Nolan. She attended country schools, graduating from Graettinger High School in 1921 as the class valedictorian. She attended the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, then taught rural school in Goodell. In 1925, she married Arthur F. Lowenberg in Graettinger. The couple farmed near Goodell. In 1969, the couple moved into Goodell. Mary loved to make bread, enjoyed gardening, crocheting and tatting. She was a member of St. Francis Xavier Cathoic Church, and the rosary society.