This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#270389) Mrs. HERMAN F. (Minnie Koss) GRUEL 1872-1946 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/clayton/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=270389> AUTHOR: Mary Durr DATE: 3/14/2010 at 16:39:10 Surnames: KOSS,GRUEL,LENTH Mrs. Herman F. Gruel Passes Away at Luana Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at two o'clock in St. John's Lutheran church in Luana for Mrs. Herman F. Gruel who passed away at 5:30 a.m. Tuesday following an illness of several months. She was 73 years old. The Rev. Paul A. Adix will officiate at the services and interment will be in the Luana cemetery. Mrs. Gruel was born at Garnavillo as Minnie Koss on November 28, 1872. She was married to Herman F. Gruel at Garnavillo February 16, 1897, and to them were born three children, Alvin of Postville, Viola (Mrs. Wilbert Lenth) of Monona, and Wilbert Gruel of Decorah, who with the husband survive, as do seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. The Gruel family made their home at or near Luana for many years. Postville, Iowa newspaper of the time clipping, hand dated 1946, from my mother's obituary collection. SUBMITTER IS NOT RELATED AND HAS NO FURTHER INFORMATION !!