Dora Struve

STRUVE, KLAUTKE, GRUHN, DOANE, JENSEN, MEGGERS, LAMP

Posted By: Beverly Gerdts (email)
Date: 3/12/2021 at 13:26:40

Carrol Daily Times Herald
27 December, 1989
page 2

Manning- Funeral services for Dora Struve of Manning will be Saturday, Dec. 30, at 10:30 a.m. at Zion Lutheran Church in Manning. Mrs. Struve, 96, died Sunday, Dec. 24, 1989, at the Manning Plaza nursing home in Manning. Officiating at the service will be the Rev. Robert Riggert. Burial will be in the Manning City Cemetery. The Ohde Funeral Home in Manning is is charge of arrangements. Casket bearers will be her grandsons: Galen Struve, Curtis Struve, Lonnie Jensen, Pat Barry, Kevin Struve and Kyle Jensen.

Mrs. Struve was born April 6, 1893, in Kirkman, a daughter of William and Dorothea (Klautke) Gruhn. She attended country school near her home and on April 4, 1909, was confirmed. On May 27, 1914, she was married to George Struve at Manning. They farmed on the Sruve home farm where they raised purebred shorthorn cattle. They moved to Carroll in 1949, when George retired. After her husband's death in 1973, she moved back to Manning. On Oct. 3, 1980, she entered the Manning Plaza Nursing Home. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church. Survivors include her children: Ralph Struve and his wife, Velma, of Irwin; Irene and her husband, C. H. "Sam" Doane of Davenport; Glen "Red" Struve and his wife, Lois, of Manning; and Fern and her husband, Kenneth Jensen, of Manning; by 16 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; a sister, Elvira Meggers of Westside; a brother, H. K. "Charles" Gruhn of Manning, and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Luella Gruhn of Manning. She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a grandson, Cory Struve in 1983; by four brothers: William Jr., Fred, Paul and Max Gruhn, and a sister, Augusta Lamp.