Funeral services for Johanna "Hanna" Boyens were held Saturday, February 15, 1986, at 10:30 a.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Manilla, Iowa. Pastor Glenn Wiechmann officiated the service with Bonnie Lorenzen as organist and Carol Ann Segebart, soloist. Interment was in Nishnabotna Cemetery, Manilla, Iowa, with Kevin L. Boyens, James L. Olson, Larry Joe Boyens, Keith L. Boyens, Ronald L. Olson and Thomas W. Jacobson serving as casketbearers.

Hanna, daughter of Lorenz and Catherine Clausen Lorenzen, was born January 7, 1890, three miles north of Irwin, Iowa. As one of the older of 10 children Hanna helped care for her six younger brothers and sisters after her mother was killed in a buggy accident. Hanna was united in marriage with Fred A. Boyens in 1912. They spent the first two years of their married life in Manilla, and then moved to a farm north of Aspinwall where they lived for several years. They then moved to Casselton, North Dakota, in 1921 where they bought a farm and remained for only two years before moving back to Iowa and locating on a farm east of Irwin. After 10 years on that farm they purchased a business in Aspinwall and lived there until 1943 at which time they moved to Denison. In the 1950s they retired and moved to Manilla to make their home. Fred died in 1969 and Hanna remained in her own home with her daughter, Gladys, until moving to the Manilla Manor Nursing Home, Manilla, Iowa, in 1982. During her life-time Hanna kept busy with the usual duties of being a mother and housewife and became an accomplished dressmaker. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Manilla.

Hanna died after a short illness on Wednesday, February 12, 1986, at Crawford County Memorial Hospital, Denison, Iowa, at the age of 96 years, 1 month, and 5 days.

Besides her husband and parents, Hanna was preceded in death by a son, Alvin, as a youth; by a daughter, Delpha Olson; by one daughter-in-law, Betty Boyens; and by the following brothers and sisters: Anna Ehrichs, Caroline Thomsen, Thomas Lorenzen, William Lorenzen, John Lorenzen, Edward Lorenzen, and Amanda Steen.

Hanna is survived by three children: Lester Boyens, of Manilla; Gladys Boyens, of Manilla; and LaVerne Boyens, and his wife, Darlene, of Kiron; by a son-in-law, Clyde L. Olson, of Manilla; by 6 grandchildren; by 8 great-grandchildren; by two sisters, Emma Ranniger and Christine Tesch, both of Manning; by two sisters-in-law, Viola Lorenzen Snyder, of Manilla and Milda Lorenzen, of Aspinwall; by one brother-in-law, Ed Steen, of Manning; and by nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.