CEMETERY OBITUARIES
EVANGELICAL CEMETERY

Lenora A Mulrer Renz

RENZ, HAROLD, GROSSMAN, HUNZIKER, KINTER, KIRCHNER, MULRER, PASSER, HUNZINKER, HARLAN, HALL, KLINGLER, BRUNK, MEINHARDT

Keokuk Area newspaper found at the Donnellson Genalogial Library 1983

Mrs. Lenora A. Renz, 87, of Donnellson, died at 7:35am July 15, 1983, at the Ft. Madison Community Hospital.
Mrs. Renz was born April 26, 1896 at Kohoka Missouri. She had been a resident of Donnellson for 48 years and was a member of the st. Paul's United Church of Christ in Donnellson , the Friendship Circle of the church and the Donnellson Senior Citizens. She was a former teacher in Clark County, Missouri.
On May 19,1920 at Keokuk, she was married to William Renz, who survives.
Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Melvin (Leila) Harold of Grand Blanc Michigan and Mrs. Del (Dorothy) Grossman of Monterey Park, Calif. two sisters Edna Hunziker of Kohoka and Lyda Kinter of Carrollton, MO, and four grandchildren and a great grandchild.
She was preceded in death by a brother and a sister. Her parents were Lewis and Catherine Kirchner Mulrer.
Funeral services were at 2pm Tuesday at the St. Paul's United Church of Christ with Jim Eads officiating. Burial was in the Evangelical cemetery near Donnellson.
The body was at the Hofbauer Funeral Home in Donnellson. A memorial was established with the St. Paul's United Chruch of Christ.
Casket bearers were: Paul Passer, Harlan Hunzinker, Robert Hall, Eldred Klingler, Jerry Brunk and Dean Meinhardt.

 Posted By: Valerie Ward
Note I am not related to this family
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Mary Elizabeth Saar

SAAR, FAETH, DIETRICH, SHIRCK

Death of Mary Saar
Aug. 3, 1933, unknown newspaper on file at the Donnellson Public Library Genealogy Section.

Mary E. Saar, nee Faeth, former resident of this community, died at the home of her son Lee Saar in Fort Madison Friday afternoon at the advanced age of 84 years. She was born in Germany and came to the Untied States at the age of eight years locating at Fort Madison and later near Franklin. She was married to Michael Saar and they moved to a farm southwest of Donnellson where the greater part of her life was spent. Her husband preceded her in death in 1912 and in 1923 she moved to Fort Madison. She was a charter member of the St. Paul Evangelical church in Donnellson and retained her membership here as long as she lived. She is survived by six sons: Peter, Henry, Dan, Ed, Lee and Carl; two daughters, Mrs. Lena Dietrich and Mrs. Lydia Shirck. Two sons preceded her in death. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the home in Fort Madison, the Rev. T.C. Berlekamp of Fort Madison officiating and from the St. Paul Evangelical church in Donnellson, the Rev. W.F. Kemphenkel officiating. Burial was in the Evangelical cemetery north of town.
Posted By: Connie Street, volunteer



Michael Saar

SAAR, SWANK, CASSIDY, BENNETT, GIERKE, NEVIUS, FAETH, DIETRICH, SHIRK, WEDEL


Michael Saar
Michael Saar, one of the pioneers of Lee County, died at his home near Donnellson at 2 a.m. Wednesday, September 4, [1912] aged seventy-four years, one month and eighteen days; death resulting from cancer. He was born. July 17, 1838 in Elstadt [Ellerstadt], Bayern, Germany [Bavaria] and came with his parents to Iowa in 1847. He was married to Elizabeth Gaeth [Faeth] March 11, 1869, and leaves to mourn his loss his widow, seven sons and two daughters, Peter of Ferries, New Mexico; Louis of Kearney, Neb.; Henry of Kahoka, Mo.; Daniel of Newton, Kan., Ed, Lee and Carl, of Donnellson; Mrs. Lena Dietrich, and Mrs. Lida Schirch [Shirk] of Marceline, Mo.; ten grandchildren; one brother and one sister; besides a host of other relatives and friends.

Mr. Saar was for many years a member of the Evangelical church and much loved and esteemed by all who knew him and who all extend sympathy to the family in their bereavement.

The funeral services were conducted from the G.E. [German Evangelical] church by Rev. Kreis, Saturday at 1:30 and the remains laid to rest in the G.E. cemetery north of our city. The pallbearers were the four sons and two sons-in-law of the deceased.

Jesus says: I come quickly. Hold fast that which thou hast that no one take thy crown. Rev. III:2

The children were all present to pay their last sad devotion to the father with the exception of Peter Saar of Fierro, N. Mexico, and Louis Saar of Kearney, Neb., who were unable to get here in time.

One touching incident, which shows that there is genuine sorrow felt even outside the family circle at the death of a good husband and father was the receipt of a fine floral wreath from the Hanlin-Shelp Mercantile Company of Newton, Kan., the employer of Mr. Dan Saar. They were undoubtedly strangers to the dead, the esteem in which they held the son prompted them to lay their offering upon the casket, and it was highly appreciated, not only by Dan but by the entire family.

Others from out of town who were present were Dr. Wedel, a nephew of Mr. Saar, and Miss Lena Wedel of Keokuk, John Saar, Mary Swank and Katie Cassidy of Cantril, Iowa, A. Bennett and wife of Keota, Iowa, Mrs. Gierke and Maggie Nevius of Burlington, Iowa.
Posted By: Connie Street, volunteer