Kalke, Anna (Mahnke) 1870-1959

KALKE, EBERHARDT, SCHUETY, SCHUTTE, KAMIN, HENNING, BAADE, HOTH, MAHNKE

Posted By: Patricia Morehouse
Date: 3/14/2007 at 14:33:10

Clayton County Register, January 22, 1959 pg. 3 Thursday

Mrs. Anna Kalke

Funeral services were held Sunday, January 18, 1959, at 1 p.m. from the Witt Chapel, to Zion Lutheran Church at Clayton Centre, at 1:30p.m. with the Rev. J.H. Zarhusen officiating. Burial was in the new Clayton Centre Cemetery.

Pallbearers were her sons, Hugo, Milo, Henry, Alvin and Harley and grandson, Edwin Kalke.

Mrs. Anna Kalke daughter of Joachim and Dorothea (Hoth) Mahnke, was born May 27, 1870, in Read Township, Clayton County, Iowa, and died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence (Hulda) Baade, near Elkader, Thursday January 15, 1959, of apoplexy. Mrs. Kalke had been in failing health for the past five years and critically ill for the past two weeks.

She was baptized shortly after birth by the Rev. F. W. Seifert and confirmed by him March 18, 1883, at the Zion Lutheran Church.

Mrs. Kale was 88 years old and had spent her entire life in this community.

She was married September 25, 1890, to Fritz Kalke at the Zion Lutheran Church, Clayton Centre. The Kalkes farmed for 41 years on a farm in Read township, adjoining the one now occupied by their son Harley. In 1931 they retired to another farm across the highway.

After her husband's death in 1932, Mrs. Kalke continued to live alone on this farm until 1954, when she was no longer able to care for herself. From then on she made her home with some of her daughters.

She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Clayton Center, and its Ladies Aid.

Mrs. Kalke was the last member of her immediate family, preceded her in death by her parents, two sisters, one brother, two infant daughters, Hattie and Emma, one grandson killed in action during World War II, and six great grandchildren.

She is survived by eleven children, six daughters, Mrs. Louis (Elta) Eberhardt, Elkader, Mrs. John (Nelda) Schuety, Edgewood, Mrs. Elmer (Freda) Schutte, Guttenberg, Mrs. Eldo (Rena) Kamin, Charles City, Mrs. Marvin (Edna) Henning, Farmersburg, and Mrs. Clarence (Hulda) Baade, Elkader, five sons, Hugo, Elkader, Milo, Floyd, Henry, Rockford, Iowa, Alvin, New Richland, Minnesota, and Harley, Elkader, 33 grandchildren, 79 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild.

All of her children were able to attend her funeral, as were 31 of her grandchildren, along with some of her great-grandchildren, other relatives and friends.