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In Memory

Mina Berrey (Lorenz) - Class of 1931

Deseret Morning News, 04/13/06

MONTPELIER, IDAHO - Mina Berrey Lorenz, 93, passed away at 12:30 p.m., Monday, April 10, 2006 in Montpelier, Idaho, following a lingering illness. She was born September 29, 1912 to Adam Lamar Berrey and Julia LaReva Bissegger. She graduated from Montpelier High School with the class of 1930. 

She was married to James Welch in 1933 and they made their home in Ogden, Utah until his death from a heart attack in 1947. Later that year Mina began a career with the US Navy working at the Naval Supply Depot in Ogden. She took full advantage of various educational opportunities and was transferred to San Francisco where she became an expert in transportation. 

She met and married Hal Lorenz and they made their home in Redwood City, Calif. In 1973, following extirpation of a cranial tumor she retired from the Navy and moved back to Utah, making her home in Salt Lake City. She was a member of the Douglas Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was actively involved with the Relief Society and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers. She also did volunteer work with the American Red Cross. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by three sisters, Ruth Walton, Gertrude and Florence Berrey, four brothers, Vernon Lamar and Richard Zane (both killed in the World War Two), John Henery and Garth. Mina is survived by a brother Milton J. Berrey of Montpelier and seven nieces and nephews. Services will be held Saturday at 2:00 p.m. in the Matthews Mortuary Chapel. The interment will be in the Montpelier Cemetery.