Boots, Warren S. 1868-1944

BOOTS, ALITZ, ERICKSON, KRAMER, EDWARDS, HOOVER, JENSEN, DIBBLE, HOLSTENSEN, MOSBY

Posted By: Judy Bender Moyna (email)
Date: 1/19/2004 at 07:37:38

8 May 1944, Elkader, Iowa, Funeral services for Warren Samuel Boots were held last Thursday
afternoon at the Witt funeral chapel with Rev. George Richter officiating. Burial was made in the
Eastside Cemetery.

Warren Samuel Boots was born in Elkader, Iowa, Aug. 20, 1868, and died May 8, 1944, after an
illness of several months.

He was married to Augusta Alitz July 6, 1891, and to this union were born nine children, four sons
and five daughters, of whom eight children are living, one daughter, Mrs. Blanche Erickson, having preceded her father in May 1940.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Augusta Boots; four daughters, Effie, Mrs. Arthur L. Kramer of Elkader, Marie, Mrs. George A. Edwards of Minneapolis, Minn., Jessie, Mrs. David E. Hoover of Elkader, and Bessie, Mrs. Jens B. Jensen of Battle Creek, Mich.; four sons, Ira Boots of Waterloo, Samuel Boots, Jr., of Des Moines, Clarence Boots of Dubuque, and Ramon Boots of Elkader, who is now in the service of his country at Pearl Harbor.

Mr. Boots is also survived by two sisters, Mrs. Sylvia Dibble of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs.
Nettie Holstensen of Edmonton, Canada. He was preceded in death by his father and mother, Mr.
and Mrs. James Boots, one sister, Mrs. Jennie Mosby of Elgin, and two brothers, Ira Boots of St.
Paul, Minn., and Charles Boots of Seattle, Washington.