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Hartz, Ethel M.
Ethel M. Hartz, 90, of Marengo, died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009, at the Marengo Memorial Hospital. Memorial service: 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Lutheran Church, rural Conroy, with the Rev. Donald Keiser Dovre officiating. Inurnment: Marengo Cemetery, Marengo. There will be no visitation. Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements.
Ethel is survived by three sons, Darrell and wife Susan, David and Maurice Jr. and wife Kathy, all of Marengo; 10 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. She is also survived by a brother, Walter Stanerson of Williamsburg, and a daughter-in law, Joyce Hartz of Des Moines.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1990; a son, Gary in 1978; two brothers, Ed and Art; and a sister, Helen Overbaugh.
Ethel Marie Stanerson was born June 23, 1919, in Conroy, Iowa, the daughter of Staner and Helen Groesbeck Stanerson. She graduated in 1938 from Hilton High School, Conroy, and married Maurice W. Hartz on Feb. 1, 1939, at her parent's home in Conroy. The couple farmed for many years in Iowa County before moving to Marengo. In addition to being a homemaker, Ethel was a hostess for Hoover-Valentine Funeral Home in Marengo. She was also employed by Home Decorating and the sales barn. She was a member of First Lutheran Church in rural Conroy and WELCA. She enjoyed crocheting and hardanger, working in her yard, and was a die hard Cubs and Hawkeye fan.
A memorial fund has been established.
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