Melba Elsie Wendlandt 1919 - abt 1940

WENDLANDT, TSCHUDI, SCHEPPELE, TEMPLE

Posted By: IA GenWeb Volunteer
Date: 10/2/2010 at 12:06:55

RIVER VICTIM’S FUNERAL HERE

Miss Melba Wendlandt Had Lived Here Six Years

The funeral of Miss Melba Elsie Wendlandt, 21, a former resident of Dubuque who drowned at Cedar Rapids, Ia., Friday night, will be held from the Haudenshield Funeral Home, 1258 Main Street, at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon to the Grace Methodist Church here at 3:15 o’clock. Burial will be in the Center Grove Cemetery.

Miss Wendlandt, who since January this year had been employed as a nurse at the State Sanitarium at Oakdale, Ia., drowned in the Cedar River Friday evening, and the body was recovered at 10 o’clock Saturday morning.

She was born at Waukon, Ia., Aug. 20, 1919, a daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. B. A. Wendlandt, now of Masonville, Ia. During the six years her father was pastor of the Grace Methodist Church in Dubuque, Miss Wendlandt attended the Jackson School and was graduated from the Junior High School in 1934. She joined the Methodist Church in Dubuque in 1934.

She was graduated with the class of 1937 at Delhi, Ia., and the same year was graduated from the Schaetzle School of Music in Dubuque, where she was accorded high honors in music. She attended Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Ia., for one year, and in 1938 entered nurses’ training at St. Luke’s Hospital Training School in Cedar Rapids.

Surviving are her parents and three sister, Miss Genevieve Wendlandt, Iowa City, Ia., Miss Winnifred Wendlandt, Popejoy, Ia., and Mrs. Joseph (Thelma) Tschudi, Dubuque.

The funeral will be held in the church of which her father was pastor for six years. The Rev. F. H. Scheppele, pastor of the church, and the Rev. Herbert D. Temple, superintendent of the Dubuque division of Methodist churches, will officiate. They will be assisted by other clergymen from this area.