Katherine “Noona” Barnick, 1925-2015
Published 10:29 am Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Funeral services for Katherine Marie “Noona” Barnick will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hayward Lutheran Church in Hayward. The Rev. Joshua Enderson will officiate. Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the Bonnerup Funeral Home chapel in Albert Lea and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will take place at Hayward Cemetery.
Katherine “Noona” Barnick
Noona passed away Monday, Oct. 26, 2015, at Camilia Rose Care Center in Coon Rapids. She was 90.
Katherine M. (Ringham) Barnick was born Jan. 22, 1925, to Christ and Hattie (Larson) Ringham in Albert Lea. Her family was raised on Pearl Street, where her parents ran Ringham Grocery Store. She attended and graduated from Albert Lea High School. On Oct. 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 could 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, Kristine (Don) Werth of Andover, James (June) Barnick of Elgin, Kathryn (Mike) Meyerhofer of Manly, Iowa, Donna Sorenson of Blaine, June (Mark) Knoll of Coon Rapids and David (Dawn) Barnick of Albert Lea; 17 grandchildren; and 24 great-grandchildren.
Blessed be her memory.
