Obit: Arends, Anna (1887 - 1992)

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Surnames: Arends, Knier, Heeg, Rathke

----Source: Marshfield News Herald (Marshfield, WI) 15 April 1992  P. 5B  C. 2

Arends, Anna (17 NOV 1887 - 15 APR 1992)

COLBY-Anna Arends, 104, Colonial House Living Center, Colby, died this morning.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Colby, with the Rev. John Malik offciating.  Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Visitation will be at the church from 9 a.m. until service time Thursday.

Rux Funeral Home, Colby, is in charge of arrangements.

She was born Nov. 17, 1887, in Hilbert, to the late Joseph and Anna Knier.  She worked in Chicago before her marriage.  She was married to Andrew Arends April 2, 1913, and he died in 1970.

She and her husband farmed in the Colby area until 1960.  They then moved into the town of Colby.  She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Survivors include one son, Walter of Watertown; two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence (Irene) Heeg of Marshfield and Mrs. Evelyn Rathke of Paradise, Calif.; 15 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

She was also predeceased by four sons, one daughter, three brothers and four sisters.