Irene Vera (Butler) Rohrback (1908-1975)

BUTLER, COMSTOCK, FLOYD, LAMMERS, ROHRBACK

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:56

The Wright County Monitor
Clarion, Iowa
Thursday, March 27, 1975
Page 2, Column 4

Funeral services were held at Eylers Funeral Home in Clarion Friday, March 21, 1975 at 2 p. m. for Mrs. Duane Rohrback.

Rev. Myron W. Brockmeyer was in charge. Mrs. Paul Loomis was the organist.

Casketbearers were J. R. (Dick) Ashpole, Sam Douglas, Jr., Lawrence Filble, Herb Lester, Don Sharp and Harold Turk.

Mrs. Irene Rohrback was born October 18, 1908, the daughter of Irving and Nellie Floyd Butler, at Webster City, Iowa. She attended school at Waterloo and Clarion. Iowa. Following her schooling she worked at the telephone office in Clarion.

On March 1, 1929 she was married to Duane Rohrback at Waterloo, Iowa. They have made their home in Clarion all of their married years.

Mrs. Rohrback was a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, a member of the First United Methodist Church of Clarion, and the Grace Stockwell Group of the United Methodist Women.

Survivors include her husband, Duane, one son, Gary, of Goldfield, Iowa, two grandchildren, Christine and Jerry, her mother, Mrs. Nellie Butler of Clarion and two sisters. Mrs. John (Bernice) Lammers of Galt and Mrs. M. W. (Jeanette) Comstock of Clarion She is also survived by several aunts, uncles and cousins as well as friends and neighbors.

She was preceded in death by her father and two sisters