Mary Kluss 1858-1939

KLUSS, LEUI, LENI, SONNKALB, KINGSBURY, HART, EVERS, HOPPER, NEWTON, ODAM, SHARP, BRIDGES

Posted By: S. Ferrall
Date: 7/27/2009 at 08:10:59

Mrs. Mary Kluss Dies Here Sunday
Mrs. Mary Leni Kluss, 81, mother of Mrs. J.L. Kingsbury, with whom she made her home, died at 3:45 a.m. Sunday, following an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held in the First Presbyterian Church at 4 p.m. Sunday, conducted by the pastor, Rev. W. Fred Galbraith. Organ music was played by Miss Gladys Kelso. The body was shipped on the midnight train to her former home at Postville, Iowa, where services and burial will be held Tuesday. Accompanying the body were her daughter, and granddaughter, Mrs. Wesley Hart of Pecos. Pallbearers were W.T. Evers, R.L. Hopper, L.W. Newton, G.A. Odam, L.A. Sharp and C.A. Bridges.

Besides the daughter, Mrs. Kluss is survived by a son, Major Walter L. Kluss, Istanbul, Turkey, a brother, William H. Leni (sic - Leui); two sisters, Miss Anna H. Leni (sic - Leui); and Mrs. Elizabeth Sonnkalb, all of Iowa. She had lived in Denton 14 years and was a member of the First Presbyterian church. She was born in Iowa Jan. 31, 1858, and was married there to the late John F. Kluss in May, 1886.

~Denton Record-Chronicle, Denton, Texas, April 3, 1939

*Transcriber note: spelling of surname 'Leni' is in original obit; the correct spelling is 'Leui'