Emma (Koehne) Wentworth 1912-2004

WENTWORTH, KOEHNE, BOURKAS, PRICKETT, WILLIAMS

Posted By: cheryl moonen (email)
Date: 10/2/2017 at 18:47:54

DELHI, Iowa - Emma Wentworth, 92, of Waterloo, formerly of Delhi, died of natural causes on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2004, at Windsor Nursing and Rehab Center, Cedar Falls.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Delaware. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Earlville. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. today at Parrott & Wood Chapel of Memories, Waterloo, where there will be a special service at 7 p.m. Friends also may call after 9 a.m. Saturday at the church.

She was born on Oct. 22, 1912, in Delhi, daughter of Herman and Emma (March) Koehne.

She married Bill Bourkas in 1935, in Lancaster, Mo.; he preceded her in death. She later married Lee Wentworth in 1959, in Austin, Minn.; he preceded her in death.

Emma and her husband, Bill, ran a restaurant in Waterloo for many years.

Surviving are a half-sister, Violet Prickett, of Santa Anna, Calif.; and a sister-in-law, Mildred Williams, of Waterloo.

She also was preceded in death by her parents.

Online condolences may be left at www.overtonservice.com.

Memorials may be given to Immanuel Lutheran Church, Waterloo, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Delaware, and Lutheran Hour Ministries, St. Louis.

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Friday, November 5, 2004