O’Connell, Barbara Jo Martinson Greve (1945 – 2004)

O’CONNELL, OSUM, GREVE, RIESGAARD

Posted By: Denise Wurner (email)
Date: 8/5/2013 at 16:01:36

Name of deceased: Barbara Jo Martinson Greve O’Connell (nee Osum)

Aged: 58 yrs, 8 mo, 5 days

Residence: Harlan, IA

Born: June 14, 1945, Minneapolis, MN; adopted

Died: Feb. 19, 2004, Harlan, IA

Funeral services: Prayer service: Friday, February 27, 2004, Harlan, IA; Fr. Robert Hoefler of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Harlan officiated.

Survived by: Daughter, Angela Riesgaard of Kimballton, IA; sons, Michael Greve of Lincoln, NE, and Mark (spouse, Kimberly) Greve of Westphalia, IA; 9 grandchildren; other relatives and friends

Predeceased by: Adoptive parents, Margerette and George Osum; husband, Arlan Greve (deceased Feb. 1983, Bloomfield, IA)

Education: attended St. Mary’s Catholic School for Girls in Minneapolis, MN. After graduation, she studied nursing in Chicago, IL.

Marriage: Arlan Rodger Greve, Feb. 19, 1964, West Point, NE

Employment: After her marriage, for many years the couple lived in Omaha, NE, where Barbara worked as a nurse at both Methodist Hospital and Clarkson Hospital.

Hobbies/Interests: enjoyed painting and writing short stories and poems

Source: burmeisterjohannsen.com, ancestry.com