Oestern, Colette (Collins) died 1943

OESTERN, COLLINS, ETHEIREDA, BROWN

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Date: 9/18/2013 at 23:50:35

Dubuque - Mrs. Lester B. (Colette Collins) Oestern, passed away at the family residence, 483 Locust Street, Wednesday evening, February 24th, 1943, at 9:30 o'clock. May be viewed at Didesch Funeral Home. The body will be transferred early Saturday morning to Harpers Ferry, Ia., where Mass of Requiem will be read at 9:30 o'clock at St. Anne's Church. Interment in St. Joseph Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, Lester Oestern; one daughter, Anne Marie Oestern, Dubuque; her mother, Mrs. Sarah Collins, Dubuque; four sisters: Sister M. Etheireda, Sisters of Mercy, Pontiac, Mich.; Mrs. Adorine Brown, Lansing, Mich.; Mrs. R.T. (Evarista) For-----[cut off], White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.; Miss Eulslia, Collins, Corona, Calif.; two brothers, Marclan Collins and [illegible] Collins, both of St. Paul, Minn.

~Dubuque Telegraph-Herald, Friday evening edition, February 26, 1943
~poor original, paper was wrinkled, there may be errors