Mary Ann (Pfohl) Duster

DUSTER, PFOHL, LINDEN, OSWALD, PAULY, GASSMAN, SUTTER, BROWN

Posted By: Carrie J. Robertson
Date: 1/13/2010 at 23:33:11

Obituary of Mary Ann (Pfohl) Duster transcribed from: Sister Edna Pfohl, The Pfohl Family Tree, Antoine Pfohl and Jacobina Dorn (No place: privately printed, no date), iv.

Telegraph Herald of 1926

MRS. MARY ANN (PFOHL) DUSTER DIES:
LIVED IN COUNTY 80 YEARS

Mrs. Mary Ann (Pfohl) Duster, age 88, resident of Dubuque County of about 80 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Henry Linden. She had been ill for about three months.

Mrs. Duster was born in France, March 22, 1838, and came to America with her parents when seven years old. They located at Galena and shortly after came to Iowa settling on a farm at Sherrill in 1846. Her marriage to Thomas Duster took place in the old St. Mary's Church at Eighth and White street in Dubuque, Iowa. After the wedding they settled on a farm in Mosalem Township (St. Catherine's south of Dubuque), where she lived until 1896 when she came to Dubuque to her daughter's, Mrs. Henry Linden. Her husband died in 1891 at age 67, and was buried at St. Catherine's.

Surviving her are seven daughters, Mrs. Nick Sadler and Mrs. Rose Oswald of Canova, SD, Mrs. Kate Pauly, Mrs. Mary Gassman, Mrs. Sam Sutter, Mrs. Henry Linden and Mrs. H. A. Brown of Dubuque; two sons, Frank of Holy Cross and John of Fennimore.
Three daughters preceded her in death and a brother (Joe) died last Christmas.
Burial at St. Catherine's.