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Evert E. Barz

1918 - 1992

Evert Barz
1918 - 1992

Services for Evert Barz, 74, Waterloo, who died Wednesday, Nov. 18, 1992 at Covenant Medical Center in Waterloo of emphysema, were held Saturday, Nov. 18, 10:30 a.m., at the First Presbyterian Church.

Burial was at the Garden of Memories Cemetery with graveside military rites conducted by Becker-Chapman American Legion Post #138 and V.F.W. Post #1623. Kearns Huisman-Schumacher Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Evert E. Barz, the son of Henry and Clara (Born) Barz, was born September 13, 1918 at Klemme.

December 8, 1940, he married Gladys Frogg at Klemme. He served in the U.S. Navy on a submarine during World War II. He was a supervisor with John Deere & Company for 30 years and retired in 1976.

He is survived by his wife, Gladys Barz of Waterloo; one son, James Evert Barz of Cape Coral, FL; two daughters, Carol Kay Laylin of Waterloo and Joan Westemeier of West Bloomfield, MI; two brothers, the Rev. Raymond Barz of Weyauwega, WI and Allen Barz of Garner; one sister, Avis Hagen of Klemme; seven grandsons; and four great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one grandson.

source: Garner Leader & Signal, 25 Nov 1992, page 6
 

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Evert E. Barz, 74, of 2012 W Seventh St., died Wednesday, Nov. 18, at Covenant Medical Center from complications of emphysema.

He was born Sept. 13, 1918, in Klemme, son of Henry and Clara Born Barz. He married Gladys Lorrane Frogg on Dec. 8, 1940, in Klemme.

Mr. Barz was a supervisor with Deere & Co. for 30 years, retiring in 1976. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II.

Survivors include his wife; a son, James Evert of Cape Coral, Fla,; two daughters, Carol Kay Laylin of Waterloo and Joan Westemeier of West Bloomfield, Mich,; seven grandsons and four great-grandchildren; two brothers, the Rev. Raymond Barz of Weyauwega, Wis., and Allen of Garner; and a sister, Avis Hagen of Klemme; he was preceded in death by a grandson.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Graveside military rites will be conducted by Becker-Chapman-American Legion Post 138 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1623. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Kearns, Huisman-Schumacher Chapel on Kimball, and for an hour before services Saturday at the church.

Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church.

source: Waterloo Courier, 19 Nov 1992, page A6, column 1

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