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Fagenbaum, Lenora J.
Lenora J. Fagenbaum, 95, of Sumner, died from complications of age on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009, at Hillcrest Home in Sumner. Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Sumner. Burial will be in Lutheran Cemetery of Sumner Township. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Becker-Milnes Funeral Home in Sumner and one hour before services Saturday at the church.
She is survived by three sons, Paul (Roberta) Fagenbaum and Harvey (Darla) Fagenbaum of Sumner and Robert (Verla) Fagenbaum of Hawkeye; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
Lenora was preceded in death by her husband, Emmett, who died Nov. 3, 1989; an infant daughter, Kay Ann; her parents; one brother, Leonard; and two sisters, Mildred Meyer and Bernida Knief.
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