Dorothea Sommers

SOMMERS, MEYER, DESTELHORST

Posted By: Leslie W. Saint (email)
Date: 10/13/2012 at 20:25:53

Burlington Hawk Eye Gazette, Burlington, IA, Sat., July 24, 1948, p.9

MRS. DOROTHEA SOMMEES

Mrs. Dorothea Meyer Sommers, 87, former resident of Burlington, died July 22 in St. Louis, Mo. She was the widow of Henry J. Sommers.

Surviving are 4 sons, Walter F., Werner H. and Elwin Sommers, all of Chicago, and Rev. John A. Sommers of Webster Grove, Mo.; one daughter, Mrs. Elsie Distelhorst of Quincy, Ill.

The body will be brought here tonight from St. Louis. Funeral services will be held in Prugh's chapel at 2 p.m. Sunday. Rev. Ernest Press will officiate. Burial will be in Porter cemetery southwest of Burlington.