Funeral services for 81-year-old Mavis Coners of Hendricks, Minnesota will be at 11 a.m. on Thursday morning, January 8, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Hendricks.
Interment will be in the Hansonville Cemetery in rural Hendricks.
Reverend Bruce Mueller will officiate at the services.
Visitation will be from 5 p.m. to 7 pm on Wednesday, January 7, at the Birk Funeral Home in Hendricks and one hour prior to the service at the church.
Birk Funeral Home of Hendricks is handling the arrangements.
Mavis Coners passed away at her home in Hendricks on Saturday, January 3, 2014.
Mavis Marie Coners was born May 7, 1933 in Sherburn, Minnesota, the daughter of Eddie and Hazel (DeLapp) Conlin.
She was united in marriage to George Claus Coners on January 20, 1950 in Sherburn. They were blessed with 11 children. They spent 20 years on a farm south of Mountain Lake, Minnesota raising their children and then they moved to Voss farms near St. James, Minnesota for two years. In March 1977, they moved to a farm north of Hendricks and in December 1997, they moved into Hendricks. Mavis worked for the Hendricks Pioneer for numerous years.
She was also a very active member of the Ladies Legion Auxiliary. Volunteering in the thrift shop and for Meals On Wheels was pleasurable for Mavis. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, where she was very active.
Mavis enjoyed picking strawberries, gardening and baking, and was famous for her brownies. She also enjoyed sewing and crocheting afghans for graduation gifts for her grandchildren. Playing cards and scrapbooking were additional favorite pastimes for Mavis. Most cherished were the times spent with her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and friends.
Surviving are her 10 children, Eddie (Lana) Coners of Canby, Minnesota, Alan (Diane) Coners of Mountain Lake, Debra Olson of Mitchell, South Dakota, Marjorie (Lyle) Nelson of Jackson, Minnesota, Karen (Dave) Ahlbrecht of Mountain Lake, MN, Sandra (Jim) Munson of Cottonwood, Minnesotea, Robert (Gail) Coners of Red Wing, Minnesota, Cynthia Coners of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Curtis (Jeanine) Coners of Hendricks and Bradley (Kim) Coners of Arlington, South Dakota; 36 grandchildren, 45 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild and numerous friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eddie and Hazel Conlin; her husband, George Coners; three brothers, Harold, David and Edward “Bud” Conlin; one sister, Liela May; one son, Steven John Coners; one grandson, Devin Coners; two sons-in-law, Scott Reipke and Matthew Olson and two stillborn great-granddaughters.
