Emma Borkowski, 1885-1966

BORKOWSKI, PAULSEN, STRIVE, MUSFELDT, WELDING, ROSTERMUNDT, JURDEN

Posted By: Virginia (email)
Date: 12/18/2015 at 08:53:37

MRS. OTTO BORKOWSKI
(The Times Herald News Service)

MANNING — Funeral services for Mrs. Otto (Emma Borkowski, 80, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning with burial in the Manning Cemetery. The Rev. Heinieke will officiate.

Mrs. Borkowski died Tuesday evening, July 12, at St. Anthony Hospital, Carroll, where she had been a patient one day. She had lived at a Perry nursing home since May 1.

Born Aug. 20, 1885, at Round Grove in Scott County, Iowa, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Catherine Paulsen. She lived in Scott and O 'Brien Counties and in Missouri until she came, still a young child, to the Manning area in a covered wagon with her parents. She was married August 1, 1906 to Otto F. Borkowski at Lincoln Township Church in Audubon County. They were parents of five children.

Survivors include: Mr. Borkowski; three sons, Clarence of Jefferson, Earl of Glidden and Harold of Botna; Three sisters, Mrs. Alvina Strive and Mrs. Katie Musfeldt, both of Manning; and Mrs. Amanda Welding of Portland, Ore.; 30 grandchildren, and 42 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded by a son, Roy; a daughter, Mrs. John Mamie Rostermundt; three brothers, Peter, Henry and Charles Paulsen; and a sister, Mrs. May Jurden.

Transcribed by S. Miller