CLARENCE ERNEST WAHLS 1901-1971

BOLLER, WAHLS, BLUM, FUELLING, FUNK

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 2/9/2005 at 19:58:49

Clarence Wahls Services Thursday

Services were held Thursday, July 1, 1971 at St. Paul Lutheran church, Postville, for Clarence E. Wahls, 70. He died Tuesday, June 29, 1971 at Community Memorial Hospital. Officiating was Rev. Walter Otto III, assistant pastor at St. Paul. Burial was in the Postville cemetery.

Clarence Ernest Wahls, son of Fred and Etta Boller Wahls, was born in Farmersburg township, Clayton county, Feb. 25, 1901. He was baptized April 28, 1901 at St. Johns Lutheran church, Farmersburg and confirmed in the same church April 5, 1914.

He was married to Selma Blum at Elkader, April 20, 1927. The couple lived on farms near Farmersburg, Monona and Postville until 1948, when they moved to Postville.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, Irwin.

Survivors include his wife, Selma, a foster son, Laraldo, three grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and two sisters, Mrs. Milo (Elvera) Fuelling, Guttenberg and Mrs. Arno (Hortense) Funk, St. Olaf.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.

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