Emma Schmidt Huntsinger 1892-1977

HUNTSINGER, SCHMIDT, GEISLER, DANIELSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/7/2011 at 23:18:27

Emma Huntsinger
Estherville – Longtime Estherville resident Mrs. Emma Huntsinger, 85, died Monday at Holy Family Hospital. Services for her will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Henry-Olson Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Max Goldman officiating and burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Tuesday at Henry-Olson Funeral Home.

She was born April 7, 1892 in Leland to Henry Schmidt and Elizabeth Geisler and attended Leland and Dakota City Schools. She married James Huntsinger October 1908 at Dakota City. They came to Estherville in 1917 and she’s lived here ever since then. She was employed at Holy Family Hospital many years and was a member of the Methodist Church.

Survivors include two sons, Kenneth Huntsinger and Wayne Huntsinger, both of Estherville; Mrs. Roy (Betty) Danielson, Estherville, a daughter; eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1951, two son, two brothers and seven sisters. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, June 21, 1977)