Maria (Koebbemann) Jahn

KOEBBEMANN, JAHN, LUEHR, THOMPSON

Posted By: Diana Diedrich (email)
Date: 11/22/2005 at 21:49:15

Mrs. Lorenz Jahn Taken by Death

Dies at Her Home Saturday at Age of Seventy-Six after Ten Days Illness

Mrs. Lorenz Jahn died at her home in Waukon Saturday morning following a ten days illness from enlargement of the liver. Maria Jahn, nee Koebbemann, was born June 23, 1858, at Schale, West Phalia, Prussia, Germany. At the age of twenty-five years she came to the United States and came to the vicinity of Eitzen, Minn., in May, 1883. She was united in marriage to Lorenz Jahn on November 30, 1844. To this union one child was born, Henry Jahn. Besides this however, she mothered and tenderly reared two sons of her husband by a former marriage, who were left motherless at a tender age, also a daughter of her sister, the infant Caroline Luehr, now Mrs. Alfred Thompson, whose mother died at her birth.
The family home was established on a farm near Dorchester, and resided there with her husband for 37 years. In 1921 they left the farm and moved to a small place on the southwest outskirts of Waukon where Mrs. Jahn died.
In 1928 the oldest son, Fred, died and three years later, on January 11, 1931, her husband died after a long lingering illness. In July of last year, Otto Jahn, her second stepson, died in Tacoma, Washington.
On September 11, 1921, Mrs. Jahn together with her husband and son Henry united with the Zion Reformed church on this city under the pastorate of Reverend K. J. Ernest.
Mrs. Jahn is survived by her son, Henry Jahn, her niece, foster daughter, Mrs. Alfred Thompson, of near Dorchester, one brother, aged 85, in Germany, besides a large number of nephew, nieces, both here and in Germany and other relatives and friends.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 1:30 from the home and two o’clock from the Zion Reformed church conducted by Reverend F. E. Stucki. The remains were taken to Oakland cemetery for burial.
The pallbearers were as follows: Carl Simmons, Alden Mosier, Frank Dunning, Paul Hansmeier, Henry Shefelbine and Henry Renk.

Death Date: 13 April 1935
Donated by Geneva Meiners Renk
Submitted by Diana Henry Diedrich