1925
Katherine
2015
Katherine Barnick
January 22, 1925 — October 26, 2015
Funeral services for Katherine Marie "Noona" Barnick will be held at 10:30 AM on Friday, October 30, 2015 at the Hayward Lutheran Church in Hayward, MN. The Reverend Joshua Enderson will officiate. Visitation will be from 4 – 7 PM on Thursday at the Bonnerup Funeral Chapel, Albert Lea, and continue one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will take place at Hayward Cemetery.
Noona passed away at the Camilia Rose Care Center in Coon Rapids, MN on Monday, October 26, 2015. She was 90 years old.
Katherine M. (Ringham) Barnick was born on January 22, 1925 to Christ and Hattie (Larson) Ringham in Albert Lea. Her family was raised on Pearl Street, where her parents ran the Ringham Grocery Store. She attended and graduated from Albert Lea High School. On October 10, 1949, she was united in marriage to Robert James Barnick at Salem Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. To this union, the couple was blessed with nine children.
In her early years, Noona drove the school bus for Hayward Elementary. She worked a few other odd jobs, but her main job, and also her greatest accomplishment, was raising her nine children. Noona was a Gold Star mother, losing her oldest son, Chuck, to the Vietnam War. Through all of that, she still managed to keep her family together.
Noona was an active volunteer for the community. She would often give people rides, set up the community center every Friday in Hayward, and help out at Hayward Lutheran Church along with many other things. In her free time, she enjoyed crossword puzzles and was a very talented seamstress. She enjoyed her coffee groups, where they would all get together and discuss current events and politics. Noona can be described as a gracious, caring, and loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert James Barnick; sons, Charles and Donald; and siblings, Esther, Sandy, Howard, Bernice, and Christ Jr.
Those left to carry on her legacy include her children, William (Nora) Barnick, of St. Peter, MN, Kristine (Don) Werth, of Andover, MN, James (June) Barnick, of Elgin, MN, Kathryn (Mike) Meyerhofer, of Manly, IA, Donna Sorenson, of Blaine, MN, June (Mark) Knoll, of Coon Rapids, MN, and David (Dawn) Barnick, of Albert Lea; 17 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
Blessed be her memory!
Noona passed away at the Camilia Rose Care Center in Coon Rapids, MN on Monday, October 26, 2015. She was 90 years old.
Katherine M. (Ringham) Barnick was born on January 22, 1925 to Christ and Hattie (Larson) Ringham in Albert Lea. Her family was raised on Pearl Street, where her parents ran the Ringham Grocery Store. She attended and graduated from Albert Lea High School. On October 10, 1949, she was united in marriage to Robert James Barnick at Salem Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. To this union, the couple was blessed with nine children.
In her early years, Noona drove the school bus for Hayward Elementary. She worked a few other odd jobs, but her main job, and also her greatest accomplishment, was raising her nine children. Noona was a Gold Star mother, losing her oldest son, Chuck, to the Vietnam War. Through all of that, she still managed to keep her family together.
Noona was an active volunteer for the community. She would often give people rides, set up the community center every Friday in Hayward, and help out at Hayward Lutheran Church along with many other things. In her free time, she enjoyed crossword puzzles and was a very talented seamstress. She enjoyed her coffee groups, where they would all get together and discuss current events and politics. Noona can be described as a gracious, caring, and loving mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Robert James Barnick; sons, Charles and Donald; and siblings, Esther, Sandy, Howard, Bernice, and Christ Jr.
Those left to carry on her legacy include her children, William (Nora) Barnick, of St. Peter, MN, Kristine (Don) Werth, of Andover, MN, James (June) Barnick, of Elgin, MN, Kathryn (Mike) Meyerhofer, of Manly, IA, Donna Sorenson, of Blaine, MN, June (Mark) Knoll, of Coon Rapids, MN, and David (Dawn) Barnick, of Albert Lea; 17 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
Blessed be her memory!
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