(December 2, 2002)
Funeral services will be conducted at the First Methodist Church in Powell Thursday, Dec. 5 at 10 a.m. for Harvey A. Lohrenz, 76, who died Monday, Dec. 2 at the Powell Hospital.
Burial will be in Crown Hill Cemetery.
He was born Aug. 10, 1926, in Lovell to Conrad and Katherine Lohrenz. He married Dorothy M. (Lynn) Lohrenz on Oct. 9, 1955, at Deaver.
After returning from service on the USS Intrepid during World War II, he farmed in Deaver where the couple raised four children. In the late 1970s, Harvey and Dorothy Lohrenz moved to Powell where he owned and operated the Triangle Trailer Court until his retirement.
He remained active, working as a roustabout, helping friends during harvest and, most recently, at the Powell Valley Recycling Center.
He was a member of the American Legion and enjoyed fishing, woodworking and a good joke. He was friendly and outgoing; he never knew a stranger. Family is comforted in the knowledge he was very loved and will be greatly missed.
Survivors include his wife Dorothy of Powell; four children: sons Jerry Lohrenz and wife Becky of Ralston, Jim Lohrenz and wife Ruth of Littleton, Colo., and Randy Lohrenz and wife Lori of Powell, and daughter Kristi Lohrenz of Emmonak, Alaska; ten grandchildren: Jackie Canup of Ralston, Jennifer Lohrenz of Anchorage, Alas., Brent and Kyle Lohrenz of Cody, Lance Lohrenz and wife Jennifer of Phoenix, Ariz., Ashely (Lohrenz) Brenning and husband Brian of Littleton, Colo., Ryan Lohrenz and wife Sarah of Fort Collins, Colo., Matthew Lohrenz of Fort Collins, Stephanie Lohrenz of Phoenix, and Lorissa Lohrenz of Powell; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, Edwin and Robert Lohrenz of Powell; two sisters, Glorianne (Lohrenz) Frame of Powell and Ruth Jordan of South Yarmouth, Mass.; and numerous nephews and nieces.
He was preceded in death by his parents and nine siblings.