Mrs. JOHN G. (Lena M.) SAHM 1881-1974

SAHM, GASPER, CRUSE

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Dubuque Telegraph Herald
January 31, 1974

MRS. LENA SAHM

Services for Mrs. Lena Sahm, 92, of Rickardsville will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday in St. Joseph's Church at Rickardsville. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Behr's, where the Scripture Wake Service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday.

Mrs. Sahm died at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Dubuque County Nursing Home. She was the widow of John G. Sahm, who died in 1969. She was born in Cross Plains, Wis., and was a member of St. Joseph's Rosary Society at Rickardsville.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Marcella Gasper of Dubuque and Mrs. Leonard (Margaret) Cruse of Hazel Green, Wis.; two sons, Joseph B. and Lester M., both of Dubuque, 20 grandchildren and 55 great grandchildren.

Another piece of information from an unknown source:
John G. Sahm, 1878-1969, St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.
Lena M. Sahm, 1881-1974, Rickardsville, Iowa, Row 4, Stone 5.