Minnie Brockheiser/Brookhiser 8-4-1857 to 10-7-1939

BEHNE, BROOKHISER, HARTMAN

Posted By: Kathy (email)
Date: 10/17/2007 at 10:16:28

MRS. BEHNE, 82 RESIDENT HERE 75 YEARS, DIES
Mrs. Minnie Brookhiser Behne, 82, native of Germany, but a resident of Burlington for 75 years, died at 8:15 p.m., Saturday at the home of her Daughter, Mrs. Charles Hartman, 231 Harrison Avenue, following a lingering illness.
She was born in Hessen, Germany Aug 4, 1857. She came to the United States and directly to Burlington in 1864. She was married in 1875 to William Behne.
Surviving are the daughter on Harrison Avenue; two sons, William 1428 S.Starr Avenue and John Behne, Cheyeane, Wyo; two brothers William Brookhiser of Burlington and A.P. Brookhiser of Galestone, Ill.; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Services will be held at Unterkircher's Funeral Home at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. W.A. Samp, paster of Harrison Avenue Methodist.
Burial will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery.

Found the Daily Hawk-Eye Gazette, Burlington Iowa Monday October 9, 1935; page two