Mrs. Leo Colsch (Miss Nellie Luth)

COLSCH, LUTH, BRAHNEY, MACKIN, ANDERSON

Posted By: Diana Diedrich (email)
Date: 8/13/2005 at 09:28:51

Tri-State Deaths

MRS LEO COLSCH

NEW ALBIN, Iowa- Mrs. Leo Colsch, 65, died Friday morning at her home in New Albin.

The former Nellie Luth was born April 11, 1891, in Lafayette Township, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Luth. She married Leo Colsch Nov. 6, 1912.

She is survived by her husband; one son, Peter, New Albin; three daughters, Mrs. William (Cecelia) Brahney, Sious City, Iowa; Mrs. J.W. (Mary) Mackin, Osage, Iowa, and Mrs. Emerson (Ellen) Anderson, Mason City; and one brother, John Luth, Lansing. One son died in infancy and another was killed in World War II.

Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, the Rev. Louis J. Grunewald officiating, and burial will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery.

Lacrosse Tribune, Sat., June 16, 1956, Page 8