Minnie Brookhiser Behne

BROOKHISER, BEHNE, HARTMAN

Posted By: Richard Harrison (email)
Date: 9/17/2012 at 18:13:28

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, Cheyenne, 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, pastor of Harrison Avenue Methodist.

Burial will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery.

The Daily Hawk-Eye Gazette, Burlington Iowa Monday October 9, 1935; page two, Burlington Des Moines county, Iowa USA copied from microfilm at the Public Library in Burlington, Iowa