Obituary     

Myrtle M. Grabner (Boes) 1909-2001
Mrs. Julius J. "Juke" Boes

The Breda News, December, 2001

Mass of the Christian burial for Myrtle M. Boes of Breda will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2001, at St. Bernard Church in Breda.

Mrs. Boes, 92, died Thursday, Dec.27, 2001, at the Brookstone Caring Household for Seniors in Omaha, Neb.

Rev. James Smith will celebrate the Mass. Lector will be Adam Pudenz and gift bearers will be Sarah Hines, Liz Collins, Courtney Johnson, Erin Pudenz and Ann Toft.

Mass servers will be Ryan Thayer, Tim Reising and Joe Grabner and eucharistic ministers will be Ray Collins and Terry Johnson.

Casket bearers will be Todd Johnson, Chris Thayer, Jamison Hiner, Matt Thayer, Tim Thayer, Mike Thayer, Julius Pudenz and Jaime Pudenz. Burial will be at St. Bernard Cemetery in Breda.

A daughter of Joseph T. and Margaret (Koster) Grabner, she was born Nov. 26, 1909, at Arcadia.

She attended St. Bernard Schools and the College of St. Teresa in Winona, Minn., receiving her teaching certificate and then teaching country school.

She and Julius J. Boes were married on Aug. 11, 1931, at St. Bernard Church in Breda and the couple farmed north of Breda.

Mrs. Boes moved to the Breda Betterment Apartments in 1990, to the Swan House in Carroll in 2000 and to Omaha in 2001.

Mrs. Boes was a member of St. Bernard Parish, its Ladies Guild, Catholic Daughters of America, National Catholic Society of Foresters (serving as past president), China Painters Guild and the Third Order of St. Francis.

Survivors include five daughters, Ardys Collins and her husband, Ray, of Scranton, Wilma Pudenz and her husband, Merle, of Lake View, Mary Jo Loyd and her husband, Robert, of Leawood, Kan., Audrey Johnson and her husband, Terry, of Bode, Iowa, and Myriel Hiner-Boes of Omaha; 22 grandchildren; 46 great -grandchildren; and a sister, Mary Ann Stork of Carroll.

Mrs. Boes was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Julius in 1986; a brother, Joseph W. Grabner; a sister, Irene Hobart; a grandson, Anthony Collins; and a great-grandson, Nathan Pudenz.

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