Irene Booth

Services for Irene Booth, 96, formerly of Marshall, will be at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at the Rehkamp-Horvath Funeral Home in Marshall. Visitation will be one hour prior to service. Burial will follow at the Lakeside Cemetery in Balaton. A Memorial service will also be held at Mount Olivet Careview/Home Chapel, 5517 Lyndale Avenue So., Minneapolis at 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 9, 2008. Irene died on Saturday, May 3, 2008 at Mount Olivet Careview in Minneapolis. Nina Irene (Breening) Booth was born March 11, 1912, in Balaton, Minnesota, to Charles and Anna Breening. She grew up and graduated from Balaton High School and later attended nurses training and was a nurse for several years at the Tracy Hospital in Tracy. In 1933, Irene was united in marriage to Albert V. Nelson of Russell. After living on a farm near Mankato for a short time, they moved to and lived on a farm near Amiret and resided there for a number of years before moving to Marshall in 1956. They were active in their community and in their church in both communities. She loved serving the Lord and those in her family and community. They had two children, James and Katherine. After husband Albert died in 1959, she married Patrick R. Booth in 1965 and continued to reside in Marshall where she was a clerk in the S and L Department Store. Survivors include her daughter Katherine and son-in-law James Calvin of Tucson, AZ, daughter-in-law La Donna Nelson of Blue Earth, grandchildren Sharon (David) Larson, Molly (David) Johnson, David (Tracy) Nelson, RuthAnn (Rich) Twardoski, and Jane Calvin, ten great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews, step-children Barbara Booth and Tom Booth and their families. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husbands Albert (1959) and Patrick (1995), son James (1994), four brothers-Arthur, Richard, George, and Carl Breening, nine sisters-Edna Mattson, Alice Freter, Bessie Bomgaars, Ora Johnson, Estelle Brier, Eva Dale, Dorothy Bastyr, Luella Olson, and JoAnn Abernethy. Memorials are preferred to Mount Olivet Careview, Minneapolis or Wesley Methodist Church of Marshall.