Mrs. Agnes Zerwas was widow of Phil Zerwas died late Wednesday afternoon March 10, 1954, at St. Anthony Hospital in Carroll. She would have been 72 years old March 15.

Mrs. Zerwas had been ill about a year, seriously ill two and one-half weeks, and hospitalized the past month.

Funeral services will be at 9 a.m. Saturday at Sacred Heart Church here. The Rev. Gerald Zensen of Mt. Carmel will offer requiem mass.

Burial will be in the parish cemetery here. Pallbearers will be Leo Bruck, Larry Polking, Joe Meier, Ed Drees, Herbert Bromert, and Francis Miles.

The body will be returned from the Ohde Funeral Home here to the family home at 2 p.m. Friday.

The rosary will be prayed at the funeral home at 8 o'clock Thursday night and at the family residence at 8 o'clock Friday night.

Mrs. Zerwas, the former Agnes Brunnier, was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julius and Catherine (Frickneicht) Brunnier, Manning pioneers. She was born on a farm near Manning March 15, 1882.

She was married at Manning May 10, 1904, to Phil Zerwas, who was manager of the Manning Telephone Company for many years.

The company is now managed by the son, Eugene.

Mrs. Zerwas' children are Sr. Mary Agnese, La Crosse, Wisconsin; Sr. Mary Phillip, Carroll; Eugene, Manning; Robert, Denver, Colorado; LeRoy and Francis, Manning.

She also leaves nine grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. Charles (Katherine) Wiese, Lake City; Mrs. Albert (Dora) Swaney, Fort Dodge; Mrs. Henry J. (Bertha) Hansen, Harlan; Mrs. Henry (Matilda) Cook-Kunsch, Omaha, and Mrs. William (Frances) Ohde, Sr., Manning, and one brother, Grover Brunnier, Lockney, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her husband, September 6, 1943, her parents, two sisters, Mrs. Wilson B. (Caroline) Swaney and Minnie (Brunnier) Wilson, and one brother, Julius Brunnier, Jr.