Services For ANDREW BOYENS
Born October 11, 1861 Friedrichstadt, Schleswig Holstein, Germany
Entered Into Rest December 17, 1943 At Jane Lamb Hospital Clinton, Iowa
Age 82 years, 3 months, 6 days
Services Held At Zion Lutheran Church Manning, Iowa December 21, 1943
Clergyman Rev. John M. Ansorge Pastor Zion Lutheran Church Manning, Iowa
Interment Iowa Township Cemetery Crawford County, Iowa
Pallbearers: Roy Soll, Lester Soll, Arnold Soll, Amos Wiese, Eddie Johnson, Laverne Boyens

Funeral rites for Andrew Boyens, 82, were held in the Manning Lutheran Church, Tuesday afternoon, December 21, 1943. The Rev. Johann M. Ansorge, pastor, was in charge of services. Pallbearers were Roy, Lester, and Arnold Soll, Amos Wiese, Eddie Johnson, and LaVerne Boyens.

Andrew Boyens was born October 11, 1861, in Hollingstedt, Schleswig, Germany. Four years later the family moved to Friedrichstadt. From 1881 to 1883 he served in the Army. He learned the blacksmith's trade, and served his apprenticeship at Altona, Germany.

May 12, 1885, he came to America and settled in Manning. December 1885 he married Miss Elizabeth Rohr. In 1886 they moved to Aspinwall where he followed his profession. In 1900, Mrs. and Mrs. Boyens moved to a farm in Iowa Township. They moved back to Aspinwall later where he raised chickens and later operated a cream station.

Mrs. Boyens passed away in 1928. Since 1943 he made his home with his daughter, Margaret Hagedorn. The last few years he spent with his sister, Mrs. Katharina Schroeder in Charlotte. A few weeks ago he became ill and was taken to a hospital in Clinton where he died last Friday.

Of ten children born to Mr. and Mrs. Boyens, Charles died in infancy. The others are Fred Boyens of Denison; Harry Boyens, Perry; Andrew Boyens, Charlotte; Mrs. Kathryn Farley, Perry; Mrs. Margaret Hagedorn, Aspinwall; Mrs. Dora Soll, Aspinwall; Mrs. Emma Wiese, Mrs. Elsie Wiese, Manilla; Mrs. Elizabeth Dammann, Audubon. There are 29 grandchildren, and 22 great-grandchildren. Also surviving are two brothers, Henry and Karl in Germany, and a brother William Boyens of Manilla; two sisters, Mrs. Agnes Meier and Mrs. Katharina Schroeder in Charlotte.