Services Zion Lutheran Church Denison, Iowa 1:30 P. M. Monday - April 23, 1990
Officiating Pastor Kurt Kaiser
Organist Mrs. Wesley Furne
Soloist Mr. Henry Henningsen "In the Garden" "How Great Thou Art"
Congregational Hymn "I Know that My Redeemer Lives" TLH 200
Honorary Pallbearers: Virgil Anderson, Dick Bromert, John DeVolld, Dennis Hoffman, Richard Hoffman, Fredrick Fitzsimmons, Jeffrey Fitzsimmons, David Muhlbauer, Ronald Nelson, Mearl Nelson, Leonard Riessen, Mark Schwery, Earl Whiteing
Pallbearers: Wesley Furne, Darald Larsen, Gary Hall, Eric Larsen, Terry Saunders, Andrew Wiebers, Robert Wingrove
Interment Nishnabotna Cemetery Manilla
Everyone is invited to return to the Church for fellowship and refreshments.
Walter A. Huebner & Sons' Funeral Service

Henry Carl Wenzel was born September 9, 1914, the son of Siegfried Frederick and Amanda (Kai) Wenzel in Manilla. Iowa, and died April 18, 1990, at the Methodist Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, at the age of 75.

He was baptized a Christian as an infant, and later Confirmed in the Lutheran Faith in Manilla, Iowa. As a young boy, he lived on the farm with his parents where he grew up and received his education in a rural school in East Boyer Township of Crawford County. After his education, he continued to farm in the Manilla and Vail area for many years. August 15, 1941. Henry and Edna Joens were united in marriage in Raymond, South Dakota, and returned to Crawford County to make their home. Henry continued to farm in the Vail area totaling thirty six years of hard work and providing for his wife. In 1982, Henry retired from farming when he and Edna moved to Denison.

Henry was a loving husband who devoted his life to his Lord, his wife, and to the land he farmed. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, and a past member of the Farm Bureau.

He was preceded in death by his parents: and survived by his wife Edna of Denison, Iowa: one Sister Emma Saunders of Walnut, Iowa: and one brother-in-law Edwin Joens of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Also surviving are five nieces and nephews and his many friends.