PETERS, Magdalena (Derga) 1846-1934

BRANNON, DERGA, FORKENBROCK, KRUEGER, PETERS, ROTHS, SCHNURR, SHINSTINE, STERNHAGEN

Posted By: Theresa Schnurr Tapper (email)
Date: 9/16/2006 at 20:53:48

1934, unknown Iowa newspaper clipping

Mrs. Lena Peters, 87,
Succumbed Monday Afternoon

Lived in Chickasaw County
61 Years. Survived By
Five Daughters and Three Sons

The death of Mrs. Madglene(sic) Peters, for sixty-one years a resident of Chickasaw County, occurred at 1:25 p.m. Monday, September 17, 1934, at the old Peters farm, south of New Hampton. Her death followed a ten day illness following a stroke suffered September 8th.

Funeral services were conducted at 9 a.m. Wednesday from the Larkin-Knutson Funeral Home to St. Mary's Church. Reverend B. H. Forkenbrock, pastor, officiated. Burial was made in the parish cemetery.

Pallbearer were six grandsons as follows: Arthur Schnurr, George Peters, Raymond Peters, Gerald Brannon, Robert Shinstine and Charles Roths.
Madglene (sic) Derga was born October 20, 1846, in Dueselldorf, Germany, a daughter of Frederick and Theresa Derga. In 1853 she came with her parents to America and settled in the state of New York.

Several years later they moved to Dubuque, Iowa.
On January 22, 1862, she was married in Dubuque to Nicholas Peters who preceded his wife in death on November 3, 1919. The couple moved shortly after marriage to Chickasaw County and engaged in farming on the farm where Mrs. Peters resided until death.

To this union eleven children were born. Two sons, Matthew and John, and a daughter, Matilda, preceded them in death. Surviving are five daughters and three sons as follows: Mrs. William (Mary) Krueger, Mrs. C.W. (Theresa) Schnurr, Mrs. Nick (Frances) Shinstine, Mrs. Jay (Lena) Brannon of New Hampton, Mrs. Theodore (Susan) Roths of Ionia, Nick Peters, Mike Peters and Charles Peters of New Hampton. Also left to mourn her death are fifty-three grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren.

The death of Mrs. Peters removed from our midst one of our old settlers, one who came here when the country was yet young, endured the hardships of the pioneer, raised a large family, and quietly and peacefully at the advanced age of eighty-seven years, ten months and twenty-seven days passed to the great beyond to receive her reward from her Creator.

Her neighbors and friends in addition to her children and other relatives are saddened by her death and they have the sympathy of the community in their sadness.

Relatives from a distance present at the funeral were Henry Derga and John Sternhagen and daughters Mildred and Irene Sternhagen, all of Bernard, Iowa.