Alberta Feldkamp - 1903-1986

CAVANAUGH, FELDKAMP, OBRIEN, OHM, STYERS, HORN, BROWN, MELAVEN, GUTHNECK

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 2/16/2011 at 16:34:02

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON DEMOCRAT July 24, 1986
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Alberta Feldkamp, age 83, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa and formerly of Harpers Ferry, Iowa and McGregor, Iowa, died July 10, 1986 in Heritage Acres Nursing Home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Services were held at noon Monday, July 14 at St. Ann's Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry, Iowa with Father Larry Duenas officiating and Father William Gultz of Dubuque, Iowa assisting. Her grandsons acted as pallbearers. Burial was in the St. Joseph's Cemetery Thornburg Funeral Home in McGregor, Iowa in charge of arrangements.

Alberta was born July 1, 1903. *Her parents were not mentioned.* She married Thomas Cavanaugh, who died in 1945. She later married Matt Feldkamp who died in 1972. She had worked at a nursing home in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and at the McGregor Hospital a number of years before moving to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Survivors include a son, Paul Cavanaugh of Waukon, Iowa; 5 daughters, Irene O'Brien of Dubuque, Iowa, Betty Ohm of Appleton, Wisconsin, Therese Styers and Cecelia Horn, both of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Maureen Brown of San Jose, California; 31 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

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Note: The parents of Alberta Feldkamp were: Peter F. and Josephine (Guthneck) Melaven
~source: Paul Moritz records