Emma Louise Decker (Mrs. Charles Hirth)

DECKER, HIRTH, SMITH, COATES, ENGLEHORN

Posted By: Diana Diedrich (email)
Date: 12/19/2005 at 16:07:58

MRS. CHARLES HIRTH
LANSING, Iowa (Special)- Mrs. Charles Hirth, 76, died Saturday in a Waukon hospital after a long illness.

She was born in Lansing Township, Feb. 16, 1884, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Decker. She married Charles Hirth, March 13, 1906.

She is survived by her husband; four sons, Alfred, John and Herbert, all of near Lansing, and Ernest, Houston, Tex.; one daughter, Mrs. Robert (Irene) Smith, Lansing; three brothers, John Decker, Lansing, and Ben and Sam of Church; and six grand-children. A brother and a sister preceded her in death.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Burke Chapel, James Coates officiating, and burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.

The LaCrosse Tribune, Monday, 24 June, 1957 p14
Emma was the daughter of Johann Adam Decker and Anna Maria Englehorn.