Merlin Arlene (Pringnitz) MAU

MAU, PRINGNITZ, SCHOENWETTER, PANTHER, SCHLEUSNER, MONAHAN, TURNBULL, PASCH, MRSTIK, WOLF, FUNK, GROESBECK, OTT, MARCHAND, LANGE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/17/2010 at 10:53:59

KLEMME - Merlin Arlene Mau, 79, of Klemme, died Tuesday (May 18, 1999) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the United Methodist Church, Klemme, with Pastor Curtis DeVane officiating. Interment will be in the Ell Township Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Tenold Funeral Home in Klemme and will continue one hour prior to service time on Friday at the church. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Hospice of North Iowa.

Merlin Arlene (Pringnitz) Mau, the daughter of Emil and Anna (Schoenwetter) Pringnitz, was born on July 26, 1919, in rural Hanock County. She attended country school at Twin Lakes #6, rural Kanawha. On April 9, 1943, Merlin was united in marriage to Lowell Mau, at Liberty Methodist Church, west of Klemme. They were married while Lowell was in the service, which resulted in the couple relocating to Ohio, then Texas, and back to Iowa. While in Iowa, the couple lived on a farm in rural Kanawha. Later in life, Merlin became a cook at the Kanawha Care Center. She worked there for 15 to 16 years and eventually became the head cook. Merlin was a member of the United Methodist Women at the Klemme United Methodist Church and was a member of the Martha Circle. She also enjoyed being a 4-H leader and was very active in the American Legion Auxiliary. Merlin loved gardening and being outdoors. She picked raspberries and made wonderful raisin-filled cookies, along with all the other delicious baked goods she made for family and friends. Merlin was a loving Grandma and she made a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they were born.

Survivors include her four children, Danny Mau and his wife, Julie, of Klemme, Randy Mau and his wife, Linda, of Mason City, Cheryl Panther and her husband, Bill, of Iowa City, and Connie Schleusner and her husband, Gary, of Garner; 16 grandchildren, Barbara Mau, Amy Monahan, Melissa Mau, Devon Mau, Dillon Mau, Danielle Mau, Trevor Pasch, Kathryn Turnbull, Mandie Pasch, Joe Mrstik, Cassandra Panther, Jessica Mrstik, Bridget Schleusner, Chris Schleusner, Casey Schleusner, and Brittany Schleusner; two great-grandchildren, Jordon Wolf and LeAnn Funk; two brothers, Ronnie Pringnitz and his wife, Marge, of Kanawha, and Virgil Pringnitz and his wife, Boni, of Goodell; two sisters, Doris Groesbeck and her husband, Mervin, of Garner, and Verna Ott of Clear Lake; and a sister-in-law, Ruth Marchand and her husband, Dick, of Clear Lake. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lowell, in 1993; a sister, Lois Lange; and a brother, Junior "Dutch" Pringnitz. Tenold Funeral Home.

May 18, 1999
Mason City Globe-Gazette - Iowa