Glawe, Henry Chistopher 1881 - 1948
GLAWE, LAMKER, MILLER, HOTH
Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 2/3/2015 at 10:41:56
Oelwein Daily Register, Wed., 14 Jan. 1948.
Elkader- Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Henry Glawe, 6_ (looks like 5), at Fried___'s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Elkader, and burial was in East Side Cemetery. Mr. Glawe died Sunday in a Dubuque hospital, following an operation.
He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Delbert Lamker; and four brothers, Louis, George, Ed and William, all of Elkader.
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Clayton County Register, 22 Jan. 1948.
Funeral services for Henry C. Glawe, 66, were held from his home at 1:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon to the Peace Evangelical and Reformed church at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Paul Kitterer officiated. Burial was in the East Side cemetery.
Mr. Glawe died at Finley hospital in Dubuque, Sunday morning, Jan. 11, of complications following an emergency operation Thursday for hernia.
Henry Christopher Glawe was born in Read township, Clayton county, Iowa, on April 07, 1881, the son of John and Fredericka (Miller) Glawe. He was one of a family of twelve children. He attended the rural school in the community. He was united in marriage on December 11, 1906 at Clayton Center to Lena Hoth. One child was born to this union, Mrs. Delbert (Irene) Lamker.
The couple farmed for several years on farms near Clayton Center before moving to the farm now occupied by his son-in-law and daughter in Read township, 5 miles north of Elkader on highway 13. In November, 1936, they moved to Elkader. Later they built a new home in Elkader which they moved into in 1938. This has since been their home. Mr. Glawe spent much of his time not only working at his new home and at the carpenter trade, but assisting his son-in-law and others with farm work.
He was baptized and confirmed in the Zion Lutheran church in Clayton Center. At the time of his death he was a member of the Peace Evangelical and Reformed church in Elkader.
He is survived by his wife and son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Lamker, and two grandchildren, Janice and Dean Lamker, also four brothers, William, Ed. L., and Louis, all of Elkader, and George of Farmersburg.
Preceding him in death were his parents, two sisters and five brothers.
Pallbearers were: Ed Leonard, John Maehl, Arno Funk, Wm. Jacobs, Otto Szemkus, and Fred Ihlenfeldt.
Clayton Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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