Carlene Ann (Behrens) Murrane, age 83, of rural Scranton, IA, passed away on Friday, October 23, 2026 at Unity Point – Trinity Regional Medical Center in Ft. Dodge, IA, surrounded by her family.<\/p>\n
Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 A.M. on Wednesday, October 28, 2026 at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Bayard with Fr. Ray Higgins as Celebrant. Music for the Mass will be by Abigail Murrane as vocalist and Connie Ziller as Pianist. Lectors for the Mass will be Jackie Hahn-Laughrey and Amanda Kielman. Gift Bearers will be Matracea Wagner, Cami Spaur, and Annistyn Wagner. Eucharistic Minister will be Angie McAlister. Casket bearers will be Kyle Behrens, Sam Behrens, Kurt Steinkamp, Shelly Fries, Brent Behrens, and Evan Behrens. Burial will be in the Willow Township Cemetery near Bayard.<\/p>\n
Visitation will be held at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Coon Rapids from 5 – 7 P.M. on Tuesday where a Rosary will be prayed at 7:00 P.M. The casket will be moved to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Bayard at 9:30 A.M. on Wednesday where visitation will resume until 10:15 A.M. prior to the Mass.<\/p>\n
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Coon Rapids and online condolences may be left for the family at www.dahnandwoodhouse.com<\/p>\n
Carlene was born on September 17, 1943 in Carroll, IA. She was the daughter of Lawrence and Justine (Beckman) Behrens. She grew up on a farm near Roselle, IA, and attended Holy Angels Elementary School and graduated from Kuemper High School in 1961. Following high school, she worked for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in Carroll. Carlene was married to Matthew James Murrane on June 13, 1964 at Holy Angels Catholic Church in Roselle. The couple made their home in Bayard. Carlene worked at the Bayard Care Center as a cook along with raising her children and helping with their farming operation. She later became the head cook at the Coon Rapids Bayard School for 30 years and was famous for her scratch made food. Carlene and Matt enjoyed Polka and square dancing, biking, card club, the Birthday Club, and traveling to Ireland, Alaska, across the United States and Niagara Falls. She was a member of the Quilt Club, T.T.T. Society, the Ladies Guild at St. Patrick\u2019s Catholic Church, and the garden club. She also enjoyed baking, especially her pies and raisin bars, canning, quilting, shopping with her sisters, going to breakfast with her friends after church and hosting friends on her front porch for a beer. After Matt\u2019s passing on January 11, 2015, Carlene continued to enjoy traveling and took several trips in the U.S. and to Italy.<\/p>\n
Carlene is survived by her son Tim Murrane (Virginia) of Coon Rapids; daughter Carolyn Wagner (Dave) of Yale; her grandchildren: Heath Wagner (Megan) of Audubon, Joseph Murrane (Amanda) of Coon Rapids, Matthew Murrane of Minnesota, Abigail Murrane (fianc\u00e9 Trey Alessio of Des Moines, Matracea Wagner (Jonah) of Ankeny, and Cami Spaur (Riley) of Knoxville; and great-grandchildren: Annistyn Wagner and Malakai Bell. Carlene is also survived by her siblings: Leon Behrens (Diane) of Elkhorn, NE; Myra Steinkamp (Orlin) of Wall Lake, Norm Behrens (Diane) of Carroll, Sheila Hahn (Gerald) of Roselle, and Mark Behrens (Kathy) of Carroll; and a sister-in-law Esta Raasch (Dean) of Carroll; Matt\u2019s siblings Jerry Wilson of Branson, MO and Patty Murrane of Des Moines.<\/p>\n
Carlene was preceded in death by her husband Matthew James Murrane; her parents Lawrence and Justine Behrens; Matt\u2019s parents Martha and Joseph Murrane; a brother Ervin Behrens; and Matt\u2019s siblings: Martha Ann Jenners (Bob), Michael Murrane, Marie Murrane, Margaret Murrane (Eugene), and Madonna Wilson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlene Ann (Behrens) Murrane, age 83, of rural Scranton, IA, passed away on Friday, October 23, 2026 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-314611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}