RADTKE, Hulda (Matthias) 1905-1958

RADTKE, MATTHAIS, VOLKER, JOHN BRANDT

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 5/9/2013 at 22:17:52

[Waterloo Courier, Sunday, December 14, 1958]

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Grace Lutheran Church for Mrs. Ralph R. Radtke, 53, formerly of Waterloo.,

Mrs. Radtke had lived for the past three years at Mitchell Air Force Base, where her husband, the Rev. Ralph Radtke, was. a chaplain. She died Friday morning at St. Albans Hospital, St. Albans, N.Y. She had had heart surgery last January, and suffered a stroke three weeks later.

She was born March 15, 1905, in Bremer County, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Matthias and moved with her parents to Waterloo, where she was graduated from East High School and was for anumber of years an office employe of the Rath Packing Co. On March 3, 1934, she married the Rev. Mr. Radtke, who served for some time as pastor of the Concordia Lutheran Church.

Survivors are her husband, two sons, Ralph R. Radtke, Jr., stationed in Korea and now home on emergency leave; Bruce Radtke, a student at Concordia College in Milwaukee, and her mother, Mrs. H. C. Matthias, 114 Berkshire Rd.

Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Bertha Volker, also of the Berkshire Road address, Mrs. John Brandt, Engadine, Michigan, and a brother, E. H. Matthias, 124 Clyde Circle.

Mrs. Radtke was preced in death by her father.

One funeral service was to be conducted Saturday in Huntington, N. Y., at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. The body will arrive Sunday evening at the Parrott and Wood Funeral Home and will be sent to Grace Lutheran Church at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Rev. M. W. Bergmann, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family requests that inlieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Lutheran Hour.

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Her first name is shown as Hulda in her father's obit plus the 1940 United states Federal Census shows:
Name: Hulda Radtke
Spouse: Ralph Radtke
Birth: abt 1905 - Iowa
Residence: 1935 - Williston, Williams, North Dakota