Becker, Wilhelmina (Flentje) 1868-1952

FLENTJE, BECKER, YAMBURA, BECKER, OVERBECK, REINECKE

Posted By: Chad K. Flentje
Date: 11/4/2003 at 09:29:00

Mrs. WILHELMINA FLENTJE BECKER 1868-1952

BECKER RITES ARE HELD HERE WEDNESDAY

Aged Former Local Resident Died in Dubuque

BURIAL HERE

Mrs. Wilhelmina Flentje Becker, a long time resident of Guttenberg, died May 11 at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Emma Yambura, in Dubuque, after an illness of several months. She was 83 years of age. Mrs. Becker had been making her home with her daughter for the past year.

Mrs. Becker was born November 27, 1868, in Hanover, Germany, and came to this country and to Clayton county in 1894.

Funeral services were held yesterday, May 14, from St. John Lutheran church with burial in the Guttenberg city cemetery in charge of the Tuecke funeral home. Rev. E. W. Kraemer officiated at the services.

Mrs. Becker is survived by two sons and one daughter, Henry Flentje of Fairmont, Minnesota, Elmer Flentje of Saginaw, Michigan and Mrs. Mike
Yambura of Dubuque.

Also surviving are three step-sons and two step-daughters, William, John and Albert Becker, and Mrs. Augusta Overbeck of Guttenberg, and Mrs. Elsie Reinecke of Florida. Twenty-one
grandchildren and thirty-one great
grandchildren also survive.

She was preceded in death by a son and a daughter.

Guttenberg Press - May 1952 - page 1)