Minnie Johanna Kotas 1875-1938

KOTAS, MANDELKOW, BUDDE, DAEGES, KRIEG, PAULY, SIEMAN, KROEGER, SIEVERS ONKEN, GOODWIN

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 4/12/2011 at 15:50:27

April 11, 1938 - Carroll Daily Times - Mrs. A.J. Kotas, 63, virtually a life long resident of Carroll County, died at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at her home on North Carroll Street. Mrs. Kotas had been in failing health since March 6, 1936, when she suffered a stroke. Although she showed improvement at times, she never regained her former health. Last Wednesday she became seriously ill. Her condition gradually growing worse until she passed away. The body will be taken at 7 o'clock Wednesday evening from The Huffman Funeral Home to the Kotas home in the country, two and one half miles east and one mile north of Carroll where Mrs Kotas resided until moving to Carroll this spring.

Funeral services will be held at the country home at 2:30 afternoon, with the Rev. R Cook, minister of the Methodist Church, officiating, will be in the Carroll cemetery. Pallbearers will be six nephews of Mrs. Kotas: Lloyd Sievers and Lawrence Hesslingh of Carroll; Ed Onken and Carl Kroeger of Lidderdale; and Harold Kotas and Glenn Graves of Glidden.

Mrs. Kotas was a member of one of Carroll county's pioneer families. She was born Minnie Johanna Mandelkow, daughter of Charles and Christina Budde Mandelkow, in Benton county, Iowa May 8, 1875. When a small girl she came with her parents to Sheridan township, Carroll county, where she grew to womanhood and received her education.

She afterward moved to Carroll with her parents and on May 7, 1901, at the home of her parents, she became the bride of Adolph J Kotas of Glidden. Mr. and Mrs. Kotas lived south of Glidden for several years. In 1917 they moved to their present home east and north of Carroll where they resided until March 10 of this year when they moved into their home on North Carroll street, which their daughter, Mrs Arnold Krieg and family, share with them. Mrs. Kotas was a member of the Methodist church of Carroll.

Surviving are her husband, three daughters: Mrs. Albert Daeges (Pauline) living on the home farm east and north of Carroll; Mrs Arnold Krieg (Alice) of Carroll; and Mrs Hoy Pauly (Leta) of Portland, OR, who arrived here Monday morning; five grandchildren and three sisters: Mrs John Sieman (Lizzie), Mrs Fred Kroeger (Anna) and Mrs Hans Sievers (Edith), all of Carroll.

She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Mrs William Onken (Lena) and Mrs John Goodwin (Emma).