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Max E. Barrows | Visitation:
Friday, January 30, 2009
5:00 PM until 8:00 PM
Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaaf Funeral Home
105 E. Kossuth
Bancroft, IA
Visitation:
Saturday, January 31, 2009
9:00 AM until 10:00 AM
Garry-Roberts-Murphy-Schaaf Funeral Home
105 E. Kossuth
Bancroft, IA
Service:
Saturday, January 31, 2009
10:30 AM
St. John's Catholic Church
204 S. Summitt Ave.
Bancroft, IA
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Max E. Barrows was born on November 30, 1921, at Austin, Minnesota, to Basil and Bertha Faye (Tanner) Barrows. Max was schooled in Austin then worked for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company there. Though Max was not in the military, during World War II, he drove high ranking military people for the Manhatten Project in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State. He later moved to Brainerd, Minnesota where he worked for many years at a paper mill. He moved to the Titonka area, working at Winnebago in Forest City, when he met and married Ruth Arndorfer Menke on June 29, 1978, in South Dakota. The couple lived on the Menke family farm, northeast of Bancroft, all their married life.
Max was an avid Minnesota Vikings Fan, enjoyed dancing, golf, horses, watching westerns on TV, lawn care, and reading (especially about trains). Max was a member of St. John’s Catholic Church in Bancroft.
Max became a resident of the Valley Vue Care Center in Armstrong on January 25, 2009, and died there on Sunday night, January 25, 2009, at the age of 87.
Survivors include his wife Ruth of Bancroft, his children, Steve of Brainerd, Minnesota, Terry of Crystal, Minnesota, Greg of Evergreen, Colorado, and Renee Gavin and husband Mark of Highland Park, Minnesota. Also surviving are Ruth’s eight children, Daniel of Ft. Dodge, Iowa; Joan Phillips and husband Dennis of Evansdale, Iowa; Judy Meyer and husband Robert of Kirkland, Washington; Darlene Watkins and husband Blaine of Bloomington, Minnesota; Nancy Hutzell of Topeka, Kansas; Harriett Hutchinson and special friend, Pat Robbins of Tempe, Arizona; and Mike and Steve of Bancroft, Iowa, as well as 22 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren and Max’s first wife Helen Gavin of Little Falls, Minnesota. Max was preceded in death by his parents, sister Doris Wilson, brothers Donald and Marv, and grandson Tom, and son-in-law Ron Hutzell.
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