Lenora Agnes (Larson) MEINTS

MEINTS, LARSON, EARLY, KOLLING, REVLAND, MARSHALL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/16/2010 at 11:57:20

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
December 29, 1996

KLEMME, IA -- Lenora Agnes Meints, 89, died Friday (Dec. 27, 1996) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Immanuel Reformed United Church of Christ with the Rev. Georgia White-Kisslring officiating. Interment will be in Ell Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3 to 8 p.m. today at the Tenold Funeral Home.

Lenora Agnes Meints, the daughter of John and Mary (Kolling) Larson, was born Dec. 22, 1907 in Blairsburg. She graduated from Clear Lake High School and then went on to graduate from Hamilton University of Commerce in Mason City. Lenora was employed by several Klemme businesses as a bookkeeper. On Feb. 20, 1942, she married Herman Meints at the Klemme parsonage. They farmed in the Klemme area and have had their present farm for over 50 years.

She is survived by her sons, Harlan Meints and his wife, Sheryl, of Ute, and Terry Meints of Klemme and his fiance, Dixie Revland, of Goodell; daughter-in-law, Carol Meints of St. Charles; a brother, Jim Larson of Belmond; a sister, Sylvia Early of Rockwell; and nine grandchildren, Juleen Meints, Michael Meints, Steve Meints, Angela Meints, Jamie Meints, Nicky Meints, Kristy Meints, Craig Meints and Tracy (Meints) Marshall and her husband, Frank. Lenora is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Herman; son, Richard A.; brothers, Elmer, Ralph and Harry; and sisters, Clara, Esther and Bessie.