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  Templeton - Ben Willenborg, 77, of Templeton died of a heart ailment Saturday, April 8, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. He had been ill three days.
  Requiem mass will be celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Msgr. A. W. Behrens at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Sacred Heart Church here, with burial in the parish cemetery. Military honors will be given at the cemetery by American Legion Post No. 22 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No. 3517, both of Manning.
  Friends may call at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning, where the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Monday, followed by a Scripture service at 8:15.
Mr. Willenborg, son of Henry and Minnie Scharnagel Willenborg, was born at Dedham April 17, 1894, and was a lifelong resident of Carroll County. He was married May 30, 1922, to Mayme Kettmann at Sacred Heart Church, Templeton, by the late Rt. Rev. Msgr. F. H. Huesmann. They farmed until moving into Templeton in 1960. Mr. Willenborg was a member of Sacred Heart Church and the Holy Name Society at Templeton and of the American Legion at Manning. He was a veteran of World War I.
  Surviving with his wife are three sons, Bernard and Harold of Carroll and John of Templeton; two daughters, Mrs. Joe (Dorothy) Drake of Coon Rapids and Mrs. Junior (Mary) Hugeback of Manning; 23 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; a sister, Mrs. Wenz (Clara) Feilmeier of Carroll; and a brother, Leonard Willenborg of Bayard.
  Mr. Willenborg was preceded in death by one grandchild, three sisters and four brothers.
(Carroll Daily Herald, Iowa, Monday, April 10, 1972, p. 2)

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