Alice Standorf 1862-1940

STANDORF, SAMS, LOCKWOOD, FRASER, MARTIN, GRANGER, MOSCHEL, BAUMAN, WEISCHMAN, SCOTT

Posted By: S. Ferrall - IAGenWeb volunteer
Date: 7/26/2010 at 20:14:28

Mrs. William D. Standorf passed away suddenly Friday morning in her home in Postville. Although Mrs. Standorf had been in ill health for several months, her condition was not regarded as being serious and her death came as a shock to her friends and relatives. She was 78 years old.

As Miss Alice Sams, she was born Februery 13, 1862, in Ripley county, Indiana, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Sams. At the close of the Civil War, in the fall of 1865, she accompanied her parents, grandparents, two uncles, three aunts and brother, R.D. Sams, to Iowa. The trip was made in a covered wagon and after many hardships, the family arrived in Winneshiek county, near Frankville. Here Mr. and Mrs. Sams and family lived on a farm for a short time, then they moved to a Bremer county farm. After a year in Bremer county they moved again, this time to a farm about five miles northwest of Postville.

Miss Sams was married November 27, 1888, to William D. Standorf, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. E. Lockwood in the parsonage of the Methodist church. For a year Mr. and Mrs. Standorf lived on a farm four miles northwest of Postville, then they moved to a farm near Hawkeye. They lived only a short time near Hawkeye before buying a farm of their own four miles west of West Union.

The Standorfs lived on their own farm for 29 years. Then when Mr. Standorf passed away, December 20, 1933, Mrs. Standorf came to Postville. She had resided in town continuously since then.

She is survived by one brother, R.D. Sams, and one sister, Miss Stella Sams, both of Postville. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Julia and Vina Mae, and her parents.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon in the R.D. Sams home, with later services in the Community Presbyterian curch. The rev. J. Ian Fraser officiated. Burial was in Postville cemetery. Pallbearers were Gottfried Martin, R.C. Granger, Emil Moschel, B.C. Bauman, Henry Weischman and Geo. Scott, all of Hawkeye and all former neighbors of the Standorfs.

~Postville Herald, June 19, 1940