Veronica Polfer

POLFER, HEIMS, KELCHEN, JAEGER, TAUKE, FUNKE

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Date: 12/3/2014 at 21:01:10

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Saturday, February 15, 1997

WORTHINGTON, Iowa - Mrs. Veronica Polfer, 88, of Worthington, died in her sleep Thursday, Feb. 13, 1997, at home.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at St. Paul Catholic Church, Worthington, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call after 1 p.m. Sunday at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be an altar and rosary society rosary at 4 p.m. and a parish scripture service at 7 p.m.

She was born on May 10, 1908, in Worthington, daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Heims) Kelchen. She married Nicholas Polfer on Feb. 15, 1933, at St. Paul Catholic Church, Worthington. They farmed south of Worthington for 47 years, until their retirement in 1980.

Surviving are three daughters, Mary Ann (William "Bill") Jaeger, of Manchester, Patricia (Wayne) Tauke, of Cascade, and Janet (Floyd) Funke, of Dyersville; two sons, Richard (Jean) Polfer, of Worthington, and Charles (Mary Jane) Polfer, of St. Catherine; 32 grandchildren, 58 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild; a brother, Alphonse (Germaine) Kelchen, of Worthington; and four sisters, Louise (Ed) Vaske, of Shady Rest Care Center, Cascade, Marie (Ray) Kronlage, of Farley, Erma Koppes, of Cascade, and Mildred Foxen, of Earlville.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Nick, in 1994; a granddaughter, Mary Rose Polfer; a grandson, Jeffery Leroy Jaeger; two sisters, Katherine, in infancy, and Rose Heying; and two brothers, Paul and Lawrence Kelchen.