Hancock County Journal-Pilot
Carthage, Illinois
Wednesday
October 22, 2003MATTIE GRONEWOLD
April 14, 1904 -- Oct. 15, 2003
Mattie Gronewold, 99, a lifelong Carthage area resident, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003, in the Hancock County Nursing Home in Carthage.
She was born April 14, 1904, in Bear Creek Township, a daughter of Jacob and Emma Schmidt Huls. On Nov. 21, 1926, she married Henry J. Gronewold. He died April 26, 1977.
She is survived by one daughter, Laurine of Carthage; four grandchildren, Cynthia Goodrich of Denver, Colo., Jeffrey (Rene') Goodrich of Bella Vista, Ark., Dean Goodrich of Quincy, and Jacque (Mark) Olson of Denver, Colo.; three great-grandchildren, Frances and Josh Goodrich and Ben Olson; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Henry; one daughter, Carol Goodrich; one son-in-law, Carl Goodrich; two sisters and six brothers.
She and her husband moved to Bear Creek Township where she resided until Oct. 13, 1978, when she and her daughter, Laurine, moved to Carthage.
She was confirmed in Immanuel Lutheran Church at rural Carthage, and later transferred her membership to Trinity Lutheran Church in Carthage, where she served as a Sunday school teacher for many years and remained active the rest of her life. On March 27, 1915, she received the Carnegie Hall Hero's Medal for saving her two nieces lives from a fire. For over 50 years she belonged to the E.I.C.W. She was a member of the Bible-a-month club of the American Bible Society. She was a member and past president of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and was a Gray Lady for many years. She was honored as a senior volunteer for R.S.V.P. with over 15 years of service.
When their daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Carl Goodrich, died in the Armory explosion in Keokuk, Iowa, in 1965, she, her husband and Laurine, raised their four grandchildren. She was a devoted farm wife and loving grandmother.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 18, in Trinity Lutheran Church in Carthage. Rev. Greg Busboom officiated. Burial followed in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery at rural Carthage.
Memorials have been established for Trinity Lutheran Church or Bible-a-month Club of the American Bible Society.
The Lamporte Funeral Home was in charged of the arrangements.
HCJP 10-22-03
Mattie Gronewold
