HENRY J. KAHLE 1872-1948

BALKE, KAHLE, SCHROEDER, SCHNEIDER, LAMMERT, WAGNER, FUELLING

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 12/19/2009 at 12:13:34

Henry Kahle, 75, Passes Saturday

Funeral services were held here Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock in St. Paul's Lutheran church for Henry J. Kahle, 75, who had passed away Saturday at the hospital in Independence where he had been a patient for several months. The services were conducted by the Rev. F. R. Ludwig and interment was in Postville cemetery.

Mr. Kahle was born at Garnavillo October 12, 1872, as the son of August and Mary Balke Kahle and as a youth came to this community.

He was married to Sophia Schroeder of Postville November 21, 1895, and to this union three children were born, all of whom survive. Mrs. Kahle passed away June 16, 1917.

He was married to Anna Margaret Schneider of Cresco, May 23, 1922, who, together with the following children, survive him: Alvin Kahle and Emma, Mrs. Walter Lammert of Postville, and Mabel, Mrs. LeRoy Wagner of Clinton, Minn. Also surviving are one sister, Mrs. Mary Fuelling of Farmersburg, nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Mr. Kahle spent the early years of his life at National. After leaving that community he spent several years in western Iowa, and then came to Postville where he spent the remainder of his life, first farming west of town and later in Postville.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1948, from my mother's obituary collection.
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