Lamker, Selma Wilhelmina Cora (Kahlstorf) 1907-2003

KAHLSTORF, LAMKER, BRANDENBURG, DETTMANN, PADON, HACKBART, GUINN, OLSON, EDISON, PANNCKE, SCHNEIDER, KLINGE, FISHER

Posted By: Errin Wilker (email)
Date: 1/13/2008 at 13:23:26

Selma Wilhelmina Cora Lamker
May 26, 1907 - April 4, 2003

FUNERAL SERVICES
Monday April 7, 2003 - 11:00 a.m.
St. Paul Lutheran Church
Monona, Iowa

OFFICIATING
Rev. Allen Bidne

MUSIC BY
Judy Walter, Organist
Pastor Christopher Staley, Soloist

INTERMENT
St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
Monona, Iowa

I DO NOT GO ALONE
If Death should beckon me with outstretched hand
And whisper softly of "an unknown land"....
I shall not be afraid to go,
For though the path I do not know....
I take Death's hand without a fear,
For He who safely brought me here....
Will also take me safely back,
And though in many things I lack....
He will not let me go alone
Into the "valley that's unknown"....
So I reach out and take Death's hand
And journey to the "Promised Land"!
Helen Steiner Rice

CASKET BEARERS
Brian Dettmann
Douglas Guinn
Andrew Padon
James Olson
James Hackbart
Donald Edison

IN LOVING MEMORY
Selma Wilhelmina Cora Lamker, 95, of Monona, died Friday, April 4, 2003, at the Good Samaritan Center in Postville following a long illness. She was born May 26, 1907, in Manly, Iowa, to Fred and Marie (Brandenburg) Kahlstorf.

Rev. Karl Freytag baptized her on July 7, 1907, at St. Paul Evangelical Church, Manly. On June 12, 1921, Rev. George G. Diemer Jr. confirmed Selma at First Lutheran Church, Britt, Iowa.

She attended rural grade school in Worth County, and came to Monona to live with her sister Amelia so that she could attend high school. Following her graduation from Monona High School in 1925, she attended Iowa Normal School (UNI) to obtain her teaching certificate. She returned to Hancock County to teach in a one-room country school while helping her mother on the family farm following the death of her father.

Selma was united in marriage to Willis Lamker on January 4, 1931, at First Lutheran Church, Britt, Iowa, with Rev. C.P. Ringhand officiating. They farmed in the Monona-Luana area for approximately forty years. Selma enjoyed gardening, reading, cutting quilt blocks and playing cards. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church and the Peace Circle. She has been a resident at the Good Samaritan Home in Postville since February 10, 1998.

Survivors include two daughters, Phyllis (Lorin) Dettmann, Monona; Rachel (Jim) Padon Beloit, Wisconsin; six grandchildren and their spouses, Karen and Jim Hackbart; Barbara and Douglas Guinn; Darla and Jim Olson; Brian and Kelly Dettmann; Sara and Don Edison; and Andrew Padon; eight great­grandchildren, Nicholas, Anna and Spencer Olson; Benjamin and Jonathan Hackbart; Joseph Guinn; Robert and Georgia Dettmann; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Willis on June 6, 1984; three brothers, Fred Kahlstorf; Arthur Kahlstorf; and Paul Kahlstorf; four sisters, Caroline Panncke; Amelia Schneider; Hattie Klinge; and Ella Fisher.

Source: Funeral Bulletin